Romney Says ‘Nothing to Celebrate’ on U.S. Testing

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) slammed the Trump administration’s progress on access to coronavirus tests: “I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever.”

Said Romney: “I understand that politicians are going to frame data in a way that’s most positive politically, but of course I don’t expect that from admirals. But yesterday you celebrated that we had done more tests, and more tests per capita, even, than South Korea, and you ignored the fact that they accomplished theirs at the beginning of the outbreak, while we treaded water during February and March.”

He added: “The fact is their test numbers are going down, down, down, down now because they don’t have the kind of outbreak we have, ours are going up, up, up as they have to. That’s an important lesson for us as we think about the future.”