Just saw Trump say the U.S. had done more testing than any other country. More in eight days than S. Korea had done in 8 weeks.
"Here you go, a youtube. Sheer genius. Where's forreal? He needs to explain himself."
Trump at least gave a misleading impression re the scale of testing in the U.S. Maybe he is correct on total tests given (can't find a recent one on that), but in testing per million Trump is lagging far behind many other countries.
FACT CHECK: U.S. Testing Still Isn't Close To What South Korea Has Done
"Here you go, a youtube. Sheer genius. Where's forreal? He needs to explain himself."
March 24, 2020 5:03 PM ET
Domenico Montanaro
A health care worker with the UNLV School of Medicine tests a patient for the coronavirus at a drive-thru testing site in Las Vegas. John Locher/AP
The United States and South Korea had their first cases of coronavirus detected on the same day. The way the two countries responded, however, was very different.
South Korea quickly got tests out, which is being credited with helping flatten the country's curve of its coronavirus outbreak; the United States moved far more slowly, taking weeks to ramp up testing.
Now, the United States has tested more than 300,000 people, government officials touted Tuesday, noting it had passed South Korea in the raw number of tests conducted.
"In a short period of time, we've done more testing than South Korea," President Trump said on an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. Trump added, "We're going up proportionally very rapidly."
But South Korea has a population of just 51 million people; the United States has 327 million.
At about 300,000 tests in each country, that means South Korea has tested 1-in-170 people; the United States: 1-in-1,090.
That's more than six times less, per capita, than South Korea.
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