Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, says the US will need a breakthrough in testing to help screen large numbers of people for the virus.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Sunday that the US will need a breakthrough in testing to help screen large numbers of people for the virus.
While the country is continuing to scale coronavirus testing, Birx said on NBC's"Meet the Press" that"we have to realize that we have to have a breakthrough innovation in testing." "We have to be able to detect antigen, rather than constantly trying to detect the actual live virus, or the viral particles itself," she added.
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