President Joe Biden‘s administration has announced the first at-home Covid-19 test. The test has a 95% accuracy rate and can generate a result in 15 minutes. According to Andy Slavitt, a temporary Senior Adviser on Covid-19, the test “was created on a testing platform developed in the NIH RADx Initiative.” “Now these are over-the-counter self-performed…
Senate Democrats unloaded on Vice President Mike Pence during a conference call over the lack of adequate availability of coronavirus testing.
Governors across the country are fuming as Trump sent each state 15 rapid coronavirus test machines, but only 100 test cartridges.
Trump was asked how he will know if the virus is in retreat if he doesn’t do widespread testing, and he answered by saying people will stop going to hospitals.
Trump was asked if the country needed nationwide coronavirus testing before people go back to work, and Trump said that testing would be nice but isn’t needed.
Trump told a reporter who asked about the HHS IG report that hospitals lack coronavirus testing that her question was horrid and she should be complimenting him.
Testing for coronavirus is an important aspect in protecting the citizenry of any nation. Doing so allows health officials to track where the virus is, and to quarantine individuals or communities in order to stop the virus’ spread. Unfortunately for the United States, the Trump administration’s response to the virus has been anything but spectacular,…
During a hearing, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) cited a federal law that allowed the CDC to make coronavirus testing free and got the CDC Director to agree to it.
Coronavirus infections in the United States continue to climb, topping over 1,000 cases nationwide two weeks after President Donald Trump erroneously claimed they’d be “close to zero.” “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good…
State officials fear that Trump’s delayed and bungled response to the coronavirus has resulted in the virus spreading faster than the ability to test.