As demand for coronavirus testing surges around the nation, laboratories that process samples are again experiencing backlogs that have left anxious patients and their doctors waiting days — sometimes a week or more — for results. At the city and state levels, testing delays could mask persistent rises in case numbers and could cloud ways to combat the… Read More »
Dive Brief: Top Trump administration public health officials denied President Donald Trump ever asked them to slow down COVID-19 testing to tamp rising case counts, despite the president’s weekend remarks to the contrary, at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday. The U.S. has conducted more than 27 million tests to date, with a… Read More »
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said President Trump was joking when he said he asked officials to “slow down” coronavirus testing. Navarro was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday to react to the president’s comments during his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Come on now, Jake. You know it was tongue-in-cheek,” Navarro said. “Come… Read More »
President Donald Trump says he’s asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because robust testing turns up too many cases of COVID-19. Trump told supporters at his campaign rally on Saturday night that the US had tested 25 million people, far more than any other country. The “bad part,” Trump said, was that widespread… Read More »
As communities across the U.S. have struggled to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have focused on the lack of widespread testing as a major barrier to safely reopening the country. As progress has been made on this front, the concern has shifted to testing accuracy, predominantly with antibody tests, which are… Read More »
The government’s ability to test people for coronavirus has been “inadequate” throughout the pandemic, a committee of MPs has said. The Science and Technology Committee said capacity had not been increased “early or boldly enough”. It said a lack of capacity had driven initial decisions in mid-March to scale back contact tracing and largely restrict… Read More »