Age of COVID-19: Fantasy facts

I was on YouTube. And I saw an interesting video. Now I did go out and look at other videos independent of YouTube to make sure I wasn't looking at some sort of deepfake.

The video appeared to be a segment on fox when Trump said 40,000 Americans who were brought back to US after the (Feb. 2) COVID-19 travel ban were tested by states. That wouldn't be an alternative fact. That would be a "fantasy fact". Early on, all COVID-19 testing was done at the CDC with its own kit, and it performed well. Those Kits were used to diagnose the first COVID-19 case in the U.S. on Jan. 20 from someone  returning from Wuhan to Washington state. The CDC claimed  between Jan. 18 and Feb. 23, the agency tested 2,620 specimens from just about a 1,000 people. Definitely far short of 40,000.

But here's what a fantasy comes in at..

The CDC shipped its kits out to qualified state and local public health labs in an effort to ramp-up testing. One problem. The kits were flawed. In other words the 40,000 Americans that came into the United States after the travel ban (Feb. 2) were not  "tested by states"