'Even with the testing increasing or being flat, the number of people testing positive is accelerating faster than that,' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said last week.
"Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!"
20 states currently have a positivity rate above 5%, according to John Hopkins University data, and that includes Arizona, which reports that 21.15% of all tests are coming back positive. At the outset of the U.S. outbreak, public health specialists criticized the country's capacity to conduct widespread diagnostic testing as far too little. The country has ramped up testing capacity to more than an average of 478,000 tests per day in June, compared with an average of over 345,000 per day in May.
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