“The Trump administration regularly says the US leads other countries in the number of coronavirus tests administered.

“While the number surpasses that of tests in other countries, it severely lags others in terms of tests completed per capita. As of late April, Italy administered nearly 21,000 tests per million people, compared with the US’s 11,800.

“CBS’s Weijia Jiang, an Asian American reporter, asked Trump why his administration was touting its coronavirus-testing numbers and comparing them with other countries’ totals.

““Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we’re still seeing more cases every day,” Jiang asked Trump.”

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