Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) called the more than 7 million diagnostic tests run to date “impressive, but not nearly enough” adding “there is no safe path forward to combat the novel coronavirus without adequate testing”
Sen. Lamar Alexander called the more than 7 million diagnostic tests run to date “impressive, but not nearly enough” adding “there is no safe path forward to combat the novel coronavirus without adequate testing.”His measured remarks were a contrast to the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen.
The assessments at a hearing on National Institutes of Health efforts to develop new tests came as officials aim to surpass 2 million tests a week by June. The NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, or RADx, initiative aims to speed point-of-care tests to market by the end of the summer that could be used to regularly on returning workers, according to NIH Director Francis Collins.
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