Top health official calls dearth of US coronavirus tests a 'failing'
A top U.S. health official told lawmakers Thursday that the U.S. health care system’s inability to test every potentially infected American for COVID-19 is a “failing.”
“The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. “Do I think we should be? Yes, but we’re not.”
The acknowledgment came as lawmakers bristled at the lack of available testing compared with foreign countries.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said after a separate briefing for senators by top health officials Thursday that he is not satisfied with coronavirus testing in the United States so far. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, complained that the system relies too heavily on trust in the “private sector.” He said senators were told at the briefing that U.S. officials would be able to administer tests more efficiently “in the next week or two.”
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