US President Donald Trump delivers a press convention within the Rose Backyard of the White Home in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2020.Jim Watson | A
US President Donald Trump delivers a press convention within the Rose Backyard of the White Home in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2020.
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President Donald Trump insisted once more Tuesday that the U.S. would have fewer coronavirus instances if it carried out much less testing — whilst outbreaks proceed to surge throughout the nation and deaths start to choose up tempo.
“Consider this, if we did not do testing, as an alternative of testing over 40 million folks, if we did half the testing we might have half the instances,” Trump mentioned at a press convention on the White Home. “If we did one other, you narrow that in half, we might have, but once more, half of that. However the headlines are all the time testing.”
Trump mentioned that whereas coronavirus testing “is an effective factor,” it has additionally served as “fodder for the pretend information to report instances.” He mentioned that if the U.S. did not check folks for Covid-19, then you definitely would not have “all of the headlines” as a result of the nation has one of many lowest mortality charge.
“Once I activate the information I see instances, instances, instances,” Trump mentioned.
The U.S. has extra coronavirus instances than some other nation on this planet with greater than 3.four million out of the roughly 13.Three million world instances. Whereas the U.S. has carried out extra testing than some other nation, it additionally has essentially the most fatalities — 136,300 of the world’s roughly 576,800 deaths. Covid-19 deaths, which had been on the decline in America for nearly two months, not too long ago started rising once more, in line with knowledge compiled by Johns Hopkins College.
Common day by day deaths within the U.S. peaked in mid-April at greater than 2,400, based mostly on a seven-day transferring common. Fatalities had been on the decline since then, bottoming out at a median of simply over 500 a day on the Fourth of July, however they have been rising ever since to a median of 700 Covid-19 deaths on Monday, in line with Hopkins knowledge.
Throughout the nation, greater than a 3rd of U.S. states reported report highs in day by day new instances, based mostly on a seven-day transferring common as of Monday, in line with a CNBC evaluation of information compiled by Hopkins. Twenty states, together with Florida and Georgia, broke information on Monday with a median of 10,855 and three,358 new instances, respectively.
As instances proceed to surge, labs throughout the nation are falling behind in processing and delivering check outcomes, in accordance two of the nation’s largest lab diagnostics corporations.
“We attribute this demand primarily to the speedy, persevering with unfold of COVID-19 infections throughout the nation however notably within the South, Southwest and West areas of the nation,” Quest Diagnostics mentioned in a press release.
Hospitalizations throughout the nation, which epidemiologists say might present essentially the most extreme outbreaks since they do not depend on testing, proceed to hit new report highs indicating widespread group transmission. On Monday, 14 states broke grim information in seven-day common hospitalization numbers, together with Texas, California and Arizona, in line with a CNBC evaluation of information from the Covid Monitoring Undertaking.
— CNBC’s Nate Rattner, Jasmine Kim and Will Feuer contributed to this report.