“The testing and the masks and all of the things, we’ve solved every problem. We solved it quickly,” Trump said May 1. The same day, a CDC official was telling colleagues to brace for a brutal month to come: “The numbers of deaths definitely will be high”
FEMA similarly emphasized to POLITICO that the federal government is pursuing many strategies at once to obtain supplies, and that shortages are not unique to the U.S. An HHS spokesperson said the department has closely coordinated with FEMA and the White House's coronavirus task force to ensure a "locally executive, state managed, and federally supported response."
Indeed, while the nation’s testing figures have risen over the last month after lagging for much of February and March, public health experts broadly agree that the U.S. is still not testing enough people to have an accurate picture of the virus’ spread. At least two states at the time — South Carolina and Georgia — were among those planning to reopen despite logging zero consecutive days of decreasing cases, according to one slide
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