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By Linda Qiu and Reid J. Epstein from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2AYeZqC
In his first mass rally in months, President Trump touched on everything from the coronavirus pandemic to military spending to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee. Here’s a fact-check.
WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID
“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases.”
False. The United States has conducted more than 26 million tests and recorded more than 2.2 million cases. But this still probably undercounts the scale of the pandemic, and ramped up testing does not account for the high number of cases.
Mr. Trump’s suggestion that the number of cases is proportional to the number of tests does not hold water. Brazil has the second highest number of cases at over one million, but it has conducted 2.4 million tests. Conversely, Russia has conducted 16.7 million tests and reported about 577,000 cases.
Other metrics show that the pandemic is just more severe in the United States than other countries. The United States, for example, conducts roughly 21 tests to find one case, whereas Italy, one of the countries hardest and earliest hit by the coronavirus, performs about 188 tests to find a case. Russia has conducted more daily tests on a per-capita basis than the United States, but its share of tests that come back as positive is lower.
WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID
“Look at what happened tonight. Law enforcement said, ‘Sir, they can’t be outside, it is too dangerous.’ We had a bunch of maniacs come and sort of attack our city. The mayor, the governor did a great job. But they were very violent. And our people are not nearly as violent, but if they ever were, it would be a terrible, terrible day for the other side.”
