Testing Is Critical to Ending the Pandemic

Why President Donald Trump’s testing comments are so off base

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readJun 22, 2020

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President Donald Trump was widely criticized over the weekend for his comments about the coronavirus pandemic during his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Specifically, Trump described testing as a “double-edged sword.”

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that