Governors are concerned that President Trump’s reopening plan lacks a major component — nationwide testing.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo speaks as the USNS Comfort pulls into a berth in Manhattan during the outbreak of coronavirus disease , in New York City, March 30, 2020.New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, told reporters Friday that the federal government should step up on behalf of states, rather than leave states to compete with each other -- and the federal government -- for testing kits, as happened with ventilators and other essential medical gear.
The president could use the act, which he has employed to push some firms to build ventilators, to compel manufacturers to make testing components and dramatically expand the capacity of private labs to churn them out. "We need some assistance from the federal government when it comes to swabs and reagents and making sure that we've got the kind of robust testing that we need so we've got data that we can actually rely on," WhitmerTrump has long-resisted calls for the federal government to pursue a comprehensive, nationwide testing strategy.
But John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor, warns of the dangers of a patchwork of state-run programs where not all state officials place the same value on broad testing. Birx echoed the president’s position in saying it would be unrealistic to achieve regular testing of the full American workforce, which last year totaled over 157 million,"That's why we have to be strategic and smart enough that we combine surveillance opportunities in the community," she said.
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