NEW: CDC tested only 77 people this week as coronavirus testing remains slow around the nation
WASHINGTON — per day — while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tested fewer than 100 people total in the first two days of the week.
“This is not a problem we can test our way out of," said Dr. Stephen Redd, head of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness, in testimony on Wednesday. It was an admission that, in a nation of 320 million, testing every person will be impossible. Redfield also said on Wednesday morning that 75 public labs were ready to perform tests across the United States. In fact, the number is even higher — 81, according to Michelle Forman, a spokesperson for the Association of Public Health Laboratories. Those labs each have the capacity to test 1,000 people per day.
As a result, Birenbaum said in a subsequent conversation, only a single private lab in the United States is performing coronavirus tests. He said he was aware of “one that will begin testing on March 16, and seven to 10 that are still setting up.” He later added that the total number of labs preparing to test for the coronavirus was actually 15.
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