While in a hospital isolation ward room receiving treatment for "unbearably painful symptoms," comedian Kathy Griffin on Wednesday responded to President Donald Trump's tweet in which he alleged that the U.S.

has performed "more [coronavirus] testing than any other nation." After calling him out for lying, she shared a personal note about being unable to obtain a test for the coronavirus due to certain restrictions in place.

Trump's initial tweet read, "Just reported that the United States has done far more "testing" than any other nation, by far!

In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span.

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