'It is a failing. Let's admit it,' Fauci says of coronavirus testing capacity

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Coronavirus
'It is a failing. Let's admit it,' Fauci says of coronavirus testing capacity
“The system is not really geared to what we need right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a House hearing.
Dr. Fauci, CDC director testify at House hearing about coronavirus test kits
March 12, 202002:06
March 12, 2020, 2:40 PM EDT
By Elizabeth Chuck


America has failed to meet the capacity for coronavirus testing that it needs, a top public health official publicly acknowledged Thursday.

“The system is not really geared to what we need right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a House hearing about coronavirus test kits in the United States, which were initially dogged by technical glitches. “That is a failing. Let’s admit it.”

Fauci was responding to a question from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, who asked about a claim by trade organization National Nurses United alleging that “countless” health care workers exposed to the coronavirus have been refused a test for it.

When the virus first started appearing in America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had narrow criteria for who could be tested for it, further limiting the number of tests performed on top of the technical problems. Those guidelines have since been expanded. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was also testifying in the hearing, directed Wasserman Schultz’ question to Fauci.

“The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that,” Fauci told Wasserman Schultz. “Do I think we should be? Yes. But we’re not.”

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[lame54]

1. Cue the Fauci countdown clock

[Ms. Toad]

2. Yes - but that does regain a bit of respect he's lost in my eyes

the last few weeks.