Millions of coronavirus testing kits are urgently needed in the US. 'Initial test kits sent to the state and county labs were defective... and that greatly limited the number of people who could get a test,' drsanjaygupta reports.
Early Friday morning, the White House announced Trump would no longer visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later in the day, saying he didn't want to distract from the CDC's work. But as he signed a $8.3 billion coronavirus response bill, the President said he"may go" after he said an individual who was thought to have the virus tested negative. Later, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham confirmed that Trump was indeed going after all.
Dr. Gupta: U.S. doesn't have 'clear vision' on coronavirus spread 04:07The effort to guarantee countrywide testing was slowed in the first instance by a fault with laboratory tests. House Democrats have announced an investigation into that failure in an effort to establish whether it might have made it more difficult for officials to assess the disease's spread across the US.Democratic Sen.
Big tech, tourism industry in crisis mode as coronavirus forces companies to react 02:01After United Airlines announced cuts to capacity on domestic and international flights, the CEO of Southwest Airlines warned the domestic carrier may soon make the"gut punch" decision to cut flights owing to a falloff in bookings that started last week.
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