Trump: "4 million Americans have been tested !"

[left-of-center2012]

Like, that's a good thing, right ?

But the population of the U.S. in 2019 was 328.2 million.

That means 324 million have not been tested.

So ... let's reopen America !

[SoonerPride]

1. On 3/6 Pence promised 4 million tests "NEXT WEEK"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/government-promises-4-million-coronavirus-tests-by-next-week-what-comes-next/

And it has taken 6 weeks to even (not quite) fulfill that dubious lie.

[Solly Mack]

2. I know! That sign behind them with the number tested

as a form of bragging.

As if such a low number was proof of anything other than Trump's incompetence.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The actual number (as far as we know) is 3,722,209.

More importantly, that's 11,245 tests per 1 million population. Countries with more tests per million are: Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Canada, Switzerland, Portugal, Ireland, Austria, Israel, Denmark, Norway, Czechia, Australia, UAE, Singapore, Qatar, Finland, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Iceland, Estonia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Lithuania, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Latvia, Andorra, the Channel Islands, San Marino, Malta, Isle of Man, Venezuela, Faroe Islands, Brunei, Gibraltar, Aruba, Liechtenstein and the Cayman Islands. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Igel]

6. We know the number's higher.

We just don't know how much higher.

Some states and private labs don't report negative tests. And in most places, most tests are negative.

Some private labs don't report positives, either. 278k? Dunno.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Wow, that's a whole 1.2% of the population.

[IggleDuer]

5. But how many were tested with ACCURATE tests?

N/T

[Under The Radar]

7. He claimed that 4 million test would be completed in mid March

What happened to that deadline?

[Midnightwalk]

8. What should the number be and distributed how

As others said it’s not 4 million and it’s a big country.

Are we doing enough tests to accurately project infection rates by state and county across the country? How many tests but also are they distributed enough to do that?

When restrictions are eased eventually or too soon we’ll need to continue testing to know if it is spreading too quickly again and to do quarantine and contact tracing

Boasting about 4 million with zero context tells me he has no plan whatsoever.

And why should he have one. If it works out no problem. If it doesn’t work out there will be another wave and some chaos. That means there will be money to make.

Either way trump wins.

[mikalcharles]

9. Also we are just chasing the virus the US has a very high

positive rate because we are only testing the most symptomatic in the current criteria for testing doing a lot of tests is nothing to brag about it essentially means we are dealing with more cases of infection