“Our governors have to take that initiative and get their public health labs fully up and running,” the HHS secretary said
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.
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