Hospitals and clinics are being forced to ration coronavirus tests in the face of critical shortages. Documents show the Trump administration is giving commercial labs priority.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is confident the US is conducting enough coronavirus testing to begin rebooting the economy, declaring at the White House press briefing that"testing is not going to be a problem at all."
But hospitals, clinics and point-of-care medical centers across the country continue to grapple with critical shortages in testing supplies that have limited the number of tests they conduct, more than a dozen lab personnel, state officials and medical associations tell CNN. What's more, the biggest commercial labs say they have sufficient supplies. In fact, the federal government laid out plans to give them a leg up.
Nurse on front lines: This is bringing me to tears 06:52The Department of Health and Human Services did not directly respond to a request for comment about that criticism, but a spokesperson said that an interagency team"is working together with States, laboratory directors and manufacturers to address issues that have been raised from technical support, to insufficient laboratory personnel, to funding, to supplies such as swabs, transport media, tubes, extraction reagents and test kits.
Dr. Fauci on US testing efforts: We're getting there 10:30Labs begging for helpThree major groups representing labs -- the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of Public Health Laboratories and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry -- have warned that supply shortages are growing critical. Nearly every academic lab that's testing for Covid-19 has run into some supply shortages in recent weeks that have slowed their ability to test, Pierce said.
E.R. Doctor takes her own life after treating & contracting coronavirus. 01:53 Patchwork of shortagesShortages have led to a bizarre patchwork of supply availability between states and even in different regions of the same state.
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