“COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”
What PolitiFact found
Testing has increased nationally, but epidemiologists say that if this were the only reason that new cases were rising, the percentage of positive tests should be dropping or at least remaining about the same. It's not.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 23 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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