President Donald Trump is claiming, falsely, that anyone who needs a coronavirus test can get one. He also compared the tests, which are in extremely short supply, to the so-called “transcript” of his call with the president of Ukraine – during which he extorted Zelensky – calling them “perfect.”
“As of right now and yesterday anybody that needs a test – that’s the important thing – and the tests are all perfect,” Trump falsely told reporters as he toured the CDC in Atlanta Friday afternoon. “Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect, right? This was not a perfect as that, but pretty good.”
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In fact, the CDC has been denying tests to those who do need them, including a nurse who became symptomatic after she worked with a patient who had coronavirus.
Some reports proving the coronavirus tests are not available to “anybody who needs one”: