20 experts told CNN the US is falling behind on Covid-19 testing. They say these five things must be done.
As the Trump administration's coronavirus testing czar, Admiral Brett Giroir has repeatedly said the federal government is doing everything possible to address the country's unmet demand for tests and timelier results.
"If there is a stone that needs to be turned that is left unturned," Giroir said on CNN's"State of the Union" on July 26,"you tell me what it is." Covid-19 testing: A spike in demand, a delay on resultsCNN asked more than 20 public health and lab industry sources whether Giroir and the administration were doing all they could to fix the country's testing problems and there was an overwhelming consensus: No.
Trump testing czar: Schools must 'temper' opening in hotspots 01:39"Most the time we are not running at full capacity," said Karissa Culbreath, medical director of infectious disease at TriCore Reference Laboratories, who said her company is receiving limited amounts of reagents, which are the chemicals used to perform the tests.
Experts say coronavirus spreading 'uncontrollably' as Trump says 'it is what it is' 03:13Calls have also increased for the Trump administration to make more strategic use of the Cold War-era Defense Production Act. The Trump administration has invoked the DPA to ramp up production of testing swabs as well as ventilators and other equipment, but some health experts have pressed the administration to use the law more aggressively.
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