Trump says he's not responsible for testing problems: 3 things to know.
have been run through agency and public health labs, and acknowledges it has no estimate of how many tests have been run by private labs. That’s compared to some 250,000 tests done in South Korea.Unlike South Korea, the U.S. relies on public health labs designed to catch new strains of seasonal flu, but most diagnostic testing is left in the hands of private labs and doctors.
MORE: Two-thirds of Americans concerned about contracting coronavirus, as country grapples with growing crisis: POLL Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Oversight Committee hearing on preparedness for and response to the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill, March 11, 2020.
He added: “The idea of anybody getting easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. We’re not.” “I don't take responsibility at all because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time,” he told reporters. “It wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about.”While there is no drug available yet to treat the virus , people with positive results or known exposure can quarantine themselves to limit the spread to others.
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