President Trump said Thursday that 'we are testing tremendous numbers of people.' In fact, the availability of testing in the U.S. lags far behind demand.
Thursday that the federal government would soon offer recommendations on how places hit less hard by the virus could lift social gathering restrictions relatively soon, task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci told NPR'searlier in the day that officials currently don't know enough to offer that kind of advice. A paucity of testing is one of the problems.
"We are quickly getting to the point where we will be able to get that data," Fauci said."To be honest, we don't have all that data now uniformly throughout the country to make those determinations. But that's a major, primary goal that we have right now, is to get those data, because you have to make informed decisions, and your decisions are informed by the information you have.
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