Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – A top member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, Anthony Fauci, acknowledged Thursday the federal government has failed when it comes to testing and detecting the rapidly spreading coronavirus in bombshell testimony on Capitol Hill:
“The system is not really geared to what we need right now, what you are asking for. That is a failing. I mean, let’s admit it.”
Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases continued:
“You put it out in the public and a physician asks for it and you get it. The idea of anybody getting it easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set for that. Do I think we should be? Yes, but we are not.”
Only about 11-thousand people have been tested for the coronavirus in the US, far less than some other countries that are testing an estimated 10,000 people per day.
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The hearing also included Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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