President Donald Trump Friday touted successes in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, insisting on Twitter that "more testing equals more cases" and that deaths are "way down."
"We have best testing," Trump tweeted. "Deaths WAY DOWN. Hospitals have great additional capacity! Doing much better than Europe. Therapeutics working!"
He also tweeted that The New York Times "now admits that patients ill with Covid are getting better faster and at higher (much) percentages."
The Times reported Friday that the United States has recorded its worst week yet for coronavirus cases.
The newspaper also reported that the recent surge hasn't yet brought a similar surge in deaths, but pointed out that deaths can come behind reported cases by up to several weeks. In addition, it reports that deaths are increasing in about half of the country's states and that about a third of U.S. counties have hit a daily record of more deaths than at any other time during the coronavirus pandemic.
Nationwide, the article adds, a record number of more than 500,000 new coronavirus cases were reported in the past week, with half of the counties in the country seeing new cases peak and a third of the nation's counties setting a new record.
Further, the COVID Tracking Project shows that the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus reached record highs in about half of the country's states in recent weeks, the Times noted.
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