Sen. Mitt Romney(R-Utah) knocked the United States’ record on testing for the coronavirus, saying it was “nothing to commemorate whatsoever.”
” I comprehend that political leaders are going to frame data in such a way that’s most positive politically,” Romney stated Tuesday throughout a virtual Senate committee hearing on how the U.S. might “safely” return to work and school amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
” Yesterday you commemorated that we had done more tests per capita even than South Korea,” Romney added, describing remarks President Donald Trump and testing planner Adm. Brett Giroir had made the day before at the White Home’s coronavirus briefing. “However you ignored the reality that they achieved theirs at the start of the break out, while we treaded water during February and March.”
As the number of cases in the U.S. started to climb up in March, governors and public health experts called out the Trump administration for the absence of available tests.
Romney likewise pointed to the countries’ death tolls: South Korea had almost 11,000 confirmed cases and 258 deaths since Tuesday, while the U.S. led the world with over 1.3 million verified cases and more than 81,000 deaths Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on transmittable diseases, informed the Senate on Tuesday that the true coronavirus death toll is “definitely” greater than what has been reported.
” I discover our screening record absolutely nothing to commemorate whatsoever,” said Romney, who is a frequent Trump critic. ( Trump, in turn, didn’t invite Romney to sign up with a congressional committee on reopening the economy; he was the only Senate Republican politician overlooked.)
” The reality is their test numbers are going down, down, down, down now, due to the fact that they do not have the kind of outbreak we have,” the senator said a