I SEE Trump is on his high horse again with his America v China politic. He is now postulating the fact that America is testing more citizens than China for coronavirus, which is why America now has a higher number of confirmed tests than China.
In fact, it has the highest number of confirmed victims of coronavirus of any other country in the world. But so far as Trump is concerned, “that’s a good thing because it means we are testing more people than any other country”.
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At the same time he posed the question as to why New York City needed thousands of ventilators, by suggesting that if a hospital has managed on two ventilators why does it suddenly need thousands more?
He obviously has not informed himself exactly what the coronavirus causes, as people without ventilators quite quickly die.
Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife
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