Trump Says Testing May Be ‘Frankly Overrated’

President Trump suggested the practice of widespread coronavirus testing may be “overrated,” even as health experts insist it is critical to safely loosen restrictions and reopen businesses, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “We have the best testing in the world. Could be that testing’s, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated.”

He added: “We have more cases than anybody in the world, but why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases. They don’t want to write that. It’s common sense. We test much more.”