{"id":2976,"date":"2020-06-23T21:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2020-06-23T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:05:55","slug":"trump-baselessly-claims-covid-19-testing-is-overrated-and-people-wear-masks-to-spite-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Trump baselessly claims Covid-19 testing is \u201coverrated\u201d and people wear masks to spite him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;The US has conducted about 72 tests per 1,000 people, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/coronavirus-testing\" target=\"_blank\">Our World In Data<\/a>. That\u2019s a lower rate than Portugal or Russia or Iceland and about the same as Australia and Italy. Good but hardly warranting \u201cgreatest of all time\u201d designations. The number of tests in the US that are coming back positive also suggests we are still not adequately surveilling Covid-19 compared to European countries.&#8221;\u00a0<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;When you conduct more tests, you would expect the positive test rate to go down, because along with some more positive tests, you would get many more negative ones. So experts are concerned because in states like Arizona and Florida and Texas,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/17\/21294392\/covid-19-coronavirus-us-cases-mike-pence-wsj\" target=\"_blank\">the positive test rate is actually increasing<\/a>. That is what suggests increased spread of Covid-19 is behind some of rising case numbers \u2014 not simply more tests being conducted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/18\/21295826\/coronavirus-us-update-trump-wsj-interview-masks-tests\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/18\/21295826\/coronavirus-us-update-trump-wsj-interview-masks-tests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The US has conducted about 72 tests per 1,000 people, according to Our World In Data. That\u2019s a lower rate than Portugal or Russia or Iceland and about the same as Australia and Italy. Good but hardly warranting \u201cgreatest of all time\u201d designations. The number of tests in the US that are coming back positive also suggests we are still not adequately surveilling Covid-19 compared to European countries.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you conduct more tests, you would expect the positive test rate to go down, because along with some more positive tests, you would get many more negative ones. So experts are concerned because in states like Arizona and Florida and Texas, the positive test rate is actually increasing. That is what suggests increased spread of Covid-19 is behind some of rising case numbers \u2014 not simply more tests being conducted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,221,596,533,170],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-masks","tag-testing","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}