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We inherited a broken test

Donald Trump · An interview on "Fox and Friends" · March 30, 2020 · Race: President of the United States

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Pants on Fire

PolitiFact, March 31, 2020 · read the check

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Does not match the record

Checked against The Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization for the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR diagnostic panel, the first U.S. test for the virus, issued February 4, 2020, three years into the administration that made the claim.

The record: Emergency Use Authorization letter for the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel (reissued Dec. 1, 2020, reciting the original authorization of Feb. 4, 2020)

Context

The statement was about the federal government's coronavirus testing capacity in the first months of the pandemic.

Topics: COVID-19.

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Sources

  1. Trump blames past administrations for a flawed COVID-19 test. The test couldn't have existed earlier · PolitiFact · 2020-03-31 · accessed 2026-09-25
  2. Emergency Use Authorization letter for the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel (reissued Dec. 1, 2020, reciting the original authorization of Feb. 4, 2020) · U.S. Food and Drug Administration · 2020-12-01 · accessed 2026-10-15

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