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Trump declares testing won't be a 'problem at all,' health experts say it's not nearly enough

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Under criticism for the lack of a national strategy for testing and continued expert warnings that the United States lacks the necessary testing capacity to safely reopen amid the pandemic, President Trump has rolled out a new blueprint for testing and confidently declared that the United States is already

“We are continuing to rapidly expand our capacity and confident that we have enough testing to begin reopening,” President Trump said in a Rose Garden press conference Monday. “And the testing is not going to be a problem at all.”

While the president didn’t not offer specific metrics for his claim that the U.S. will “double” testing, the administration's top official on testing Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett Giroir says the administration’s goal is to make sure each state has capacity to test at least 2 percent of its population on a monthly basis..

“Two percent of the U.S. population is about 220 thousand tests a day, but we know to test just the highest priority groups, we need a half a million tests a day, so this falls short,” Shahpar told ABC news. He included public safety workers, asymptomatic health care workers, and other essential workers in his definition of high priority groups.

 

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