Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Monday that the U.S. likely won’t have broad-based testing for the coronavirus in place until September.
As other states reopen, he said that the U.S. won’t have the optimal amount of testing and contact tracing in place to “to do the work of tracking down everyone who is sick, or who might have been in contact with people who [are] sick.”
“It's a risk, there's no question it's a risk," he said."I mean, we won't have the testing that we want until September, I think, in terms of kind of broad coverage. You're still going to see high positivity rates heading into May.”“If we wait until we have sort of the optimal framework for testing, we'll be waiting until the fall and that's just not going to be possible from an economic, social or public health standpoint,” he said.
to allow for even a partial reopening of the country’s economy. An average of about a million tests are being conducted each week in the U.S., according to the COVID Tracking Project. That surveillance only covers diagnostic testing, which determines whether a person tests positive for the illness at the time of testing.that would determine whether a person was previously infected with the virus. Officials have been saying that those tests could be key to reopening the economy. At the same time, officials also warn that it’s unclear whether a person who already contracted the virus is immune from getting it again.
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