Governors across the US push back on Trump admin.'s claims that states are conducting a 'sufficient' level of coronavirus testing.
The White House's own recommendations, revised last week, note that robust testing is needed for states to begin easing coronavirus restrictions. The White House has said testing will be state-led, and that it believes enough tests are available for any state to move into the first phase of reopening.
"The numbers originally said that we only needed 750,000 tests a week," White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx told CBS's"Face the Nation."We've long since passed that the new number coming from Harvard is the half a million a day." 'If anyone at the FDA is watching, this would really take our capacity up literally overnight, and that's what we need to get moving in Ohio," he added.Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said her state also has the capacity to"double or triple the number of tests we are doing but we need some of the supplies."
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