'The system is not really geared to what we need right now,' Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a US House hearing today.
When the virus first started appearing in America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had narrow criteria for who could be tested for it, further limiting the number of tests performed on top of the technical problems. Those guidelines have since been expanded. Dr.
Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, who was also testifying in the hearing, directed Wasserman Schultz's question to Fauci."The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that," Fauci told Wasserman Schultz."Do I think we should be? Yes. But we're not."
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