At a congressional hearing Tuesday reviewing the U.S. response to the COVID-19 crisis, Washington Sen. Patty Murray expressed strong frustration to federal health officials over what she said was a lack of testing in her home state where at least six people have died. “I’m hearing from people that are
At a congressional hearing Tuesday reviewing the U.S. response to the COVID-19 crisis, Washington Sen. Patty Murray expressed strong frustration to federal health officials over what she said was a lack of testing in her home state where at least six people have died.
— ABC News Politics March 3, 2020 The Centers for Disease Control has been criticized by other health professionals for initially coming up with a faulty test for the new coronavirus and then for conducting testing too slowly and on too few people. “We want desperately to have a therapy for these individuals,” he said, adding that multiple options are currently being tested in randomized trials.As CDC and FDA officials faced repeated questions about the rate of testing and availability of tests, FDA Commissioner Hahn said labs should have the ability to conduct up to a million tests by the end of the week.
Story continuesSchuchat also said the CDC is rapidly supplying public health labs with tests, but emphasized that public health labs only represent a small portion of all the tests run of respiratory samples during flu season and that the majority of people with respiratory symptoms don’t get tested.
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