Fauci Fact-Checks Trump On Testing
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🗓️ 23 June 2020
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Summary
On Saturday, the U.S. reported 32,411 new cases in just that one day.
Fauci also countered President Trump's claim that more testing is "a double-edged sword" to blame for the rise in coronavirus cases across the country. Instead, Fauci says testing is essential if we want to get control of the virus.
And NPR's Lauren Frayer takes us to India, where the health care system is collapsing under the heavy demand caused by COVID-19.
Plus — for the past three months, just about everyone who can work from home has. And for the most part, things seem to be working. So, as NPR's Uri Berliner reports, more and more employers are looking to make the move permanent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, just a quick thing before we get started. |
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| 0:31.0 | On the White House lawn Tuesday, |
| 0:33.0 | President Trump was asked by a CBS news reporter |
| 0:36.7 | about something he said at his rally in Tulsa over the weekend. |
| 0:40.5 | And what he said was, he'd actually told his staff |
| 0:42.7 | to slow down testing to keep the number of positive cases down. |
| 0:47.7 | And so the reporter asked if he was kidding when he said that. |
| 0:51.9 | I don't get. |
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