Trump said Google was 'very quickly' developing a site to assist in COVID-19 cases. Google contradicted him, and Trump officials have admitted they have no clue about a timeline for such a project.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also did not say when the website Trump mentioned will be built.
“Put aside the website and how it’s going to be fully operational,” Fauci, who is co-leading the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, told host Chris Wallace. He turned instead to the availability of coronavirus tests, saying large corporations and health organizations are currently unable to scale up the testing capability in the United States.Fauci previously referred to insufficient coronavirus testing as a “COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that was first reported in China in late 2019, is thought to be 10 times deadlier than the flu, Fauci said last week.
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