Azar didn’t comment on why the White House had initially opposed more testing money, but said that previous bills included $25 billion for testing — $11 billion of which went to states.
He also swatted down concerns that the federal government was sitting on testing dollars, pointing to $2 billion for the National Institutes of Health to develop cheap and readily available point-of-care diagnostics. He also said that public health labs are running at 58 percent capacity, and claimed the federal government is meeting every need for supplies and testing. He put the onus on the states to boost testing, saying “we’re certainly talking to the governors and telling them that they’ve got to use this money to get up and running.”
HHS and the Department of Defense announced Sunday afternoon a new $7.6 million investment to expand production of supplies that can increase the availability of tests that can run on high-capacity machines made by medical technology company Hologic. This will help Hologic boost capacity, from 4.8 million tests per month to around 6.8 million by January 2021, according to HHS' statement.
The realDonaldTrump administrations greatest skillet, not taking responsibility for anything, ever unless it was the Obama economic recovery
Failure by the WH and cabinet + Abbot, DeSantis, Kemp
Federal government has done nothing to mitigate this pandemic. Lack of leadership and planning. States are on their own. Trump’s incompetent and his staff too.
HHSGov If States Would Have Known From the Start That WhiteHouse Leadership Would Be Insufficient and of Little Help.
SecAzar I guess you’ve forgotten that it’s your job to assist with this as much as possible. Not obstruct and not stay uninvolved. Why blame others for you being AWOL?
BS HHSGov
Get Trump's fat butt off the stimulus money already allocated for testing and a lot of health labs could do more.
Naturally, God forbid the trumpers actually take responsibility for anything. Losers.
It is your problem,SecAzar. You should have asked Trump to authorize DPA to manufacture reagents, other testing supplies, PPEs etc. as well as provide funding for states to hire more lab techs to enhance testing capabilities of state public health labs in accordance with need
Republicans can't govern.
Of course the fact he and Trump admin gave them no help or even real advice has nothing to do with it but we know better or at least hope so and remember at voting time
Lol. Take credit for anything that goes well and blame the governors when things go sideways. Who didn't see that coming?
This used to be the ‘United’ States of America. This inept administration has destroyed that. It’s now just a bunch of states. Trump et al. have demonstrated zero willingness to lead.
Trump lover!
Azar is Trump’s biatch
100 days, Alex. 100 days.
'Because there is no Federal government. None. Our POTUS is busy watching TV, tweeting & golfing.'
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