The president announced an unnamed company will produce 20 million swabs per month
“It's a tremendous hammer,” he said of the DPA. “We have millions of them coming in. They are very easy. ... In all fairness, governors could get them themselves. But we are going to do it. We'll work with the governors and if they can't do it, we'll do it." He added that "we have millions of them coming in very soon.”in an emergency.
"The people who are actually going to do the swabbing, many times they don’t have the swabs,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told MSNBC on Sunday morning. “So what we did in Ohio — Ohio State University and our health department got together, formed a group, and they’re working every day to get more swabs out.”a Republican, emphasized that the workaround is far from adequate for the level of testing the state needs to even think about reopening its economy as President Trump has urged.Michigan Gov.
"This is not a unique situation in Michigan," Whitmer said, citing comments from Maryland's and Virginia's governors. "But the crisis that we're confronting is unique. And that's precisely why it would really be incredibly helpful if the federal government would use the Defense Production Act to start making these swabs and reagents, so we can improve testing."
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