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Social media calls out the governor for exaggerated claim on coronavirus testing
Gov. Asa Hutchinson proudly displayed this graphic at today’s coronavirus press briefing to illustrate that Arkansas is seemingly a leader in the rate of testing. I added the scrawled question marks after some commenters on Twitter detected a problem with the numbers.
Hutchinson said the graphic was provided by the “White House.” He said it shows “Arkansas is doing very well” in comparison to the rest of the country. There was some question in his presentation about whether Arkansas fell in the 60-90/1,000 or the over 90 per 1,000 categories.
The state’s own data raises a question about either figure.
Little Rock lawyer David Couch weighed in first or was at least the first question I saw on Twitter.
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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2020/04/20/social-media-calls-out-the-governor-for-exaggerated-claim-on-coronavirus-testing
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