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With plans to reopen schools and businesses due to the effects of immediate testing, the Trump administration’s test czar says “a two- to three-day course change is not possible.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Katherine J. Wu
WASHINGTON – As schools, universities and businesses pin their hopes of reopening in immediate verification of the coronavirus, the Trump administration’s verist told Congress Friday that getting verification effects within two or three days is not an imagineable benchmark where we can succeed today. ”
But even this sober assessment by Admiral Brett P. Giroir, the undersecretary of fitness, did not fully reflect the growing frustration of patients and fitness care professionals as the school year struggles to begin.
During a long hearing in the House with senior government fitness officials, Dr. Giroir told lawmakers that the country conducts an average of about 820,000 tests per day, up from 550,000 at the beginning of the month. But the raw numbers refute the hardening of the evidence faced by officials across the country in the face of rising cases in the south and west.
“Response times are definitely improving,” Dr. Giroir insisted, adding that it’s “very atypical” to wait more than 12 days for results.
But many researchers still face a severe shortage of control materials that want to collect samples from patients and treat them in laboratories. This leaves the national and local government without the data they want to make critical physical fitness decisions and creates delays in locating contacts, a mandatory tool for the spread of the pandemic.
“We do so much testing that it can take seven to ten days to get the results,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday in a briefing with President Trump.
Coronavirus tests are essential to open up the economy and get others back to paintings and school, but it’s almost if lengthy delays keep others quarantined unnecessarily for days or allow them to spread the virus while they wait for their results.
Dr. Giroir insisted that, overall, 59% of the tests report its effects in 3 days and 76% on all five.
“I’m sure there’s an outlier between 12 and 16 days because it happens,” he added, “but it’s very atypical.”
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