Republicans, Democrats complain to Trump administration officials about lag in coronavirus testing
Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Thursday complained to Trump administration officials over the lag in U.S. testing for the coronavirus pandemic compared with other nations.
In separate briefings on either side of the Capitol, top public health officials told lawmakers that the U.S. must move to a new testing model that does not rely on the intervention of doctors to combat the coronavirus.
The officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — made the statements in response to questions about why U.S. testing capacity has lagged that in South Korea, where hundreds of thousands of people have been tested, more than 10,000 per day.
So far, in the U.S., only about 11,000 people have so far been tested, according to the briefers.
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