8 hours agoDr. Faucie: There have been no guidelines for slowing down tests for Ovid 19
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(6 years ago)Infectious disease expert in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that he and the other members of the White House Working Group for Coronavirus have not been instructed to slow down tests for Covid-19, as President Donald Trump has said he has done so. “As a member of the group [...]
“As a member of the working group, and my working group colleagues, according to my knowledge, I know for sure, that none of us were ever told to slow down tests. That's just a fact. In fact, we'll do more tests”, Dr. Faucie before the House of Representatives Commission for Energy and Trade on the administration's response to the body's pandemic.
Dr. Faucis came just hours after US President Donald Trump stressed that he was serious about what he said in his speech at a campaign rally in Oklahoma on Saturday, when he said he had asked his administration to slow down tests because more tests would reveal more cases.
White House officials have since tried to withdraw from his comments, saying they were not meant to be taken seriously.
But when asked by reporters in Washington on Tuesday whether comments at the gathering were made joking, President Trump said: I'm not a kid. Let me make this clear. “
U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield, when asked if more people should be tested in the United States, answered by saying, “All of us have been and will continue to be committed to increasing the timely approach to testing. We have made a remarkable improvement and still have a long road ahead. ”
The United States leads the world through the number of coronary infections, with over 2.3 million cases of over 9.1 million sosh worldwide, according to statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The United States also leads to the number of deaths confirmed by David-19, with more than 120,670.
The convention hearings were held in response to the rise in confirmed new cases of coronary and the increase in the number of hospital - prone persons due to disease in some parts of the United States.
Even the head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr Stephen Hahn, and the head of the United States Public Health Service, Admiral Brett Giroir, testified at Tuesday's convention session.
Dr. Fauci is among health experts who say people should not focus on the second wave of coronary in the United States because the country has not yet emerged from its first wave.
It's a serious situation, Dr. Fauci the lawmakers. For the moment, the next two weeks will be critical to our ability to deal with the rise of the cases we're seeing in Florida, Texas, Arizona and other states. ”
Many countries are in the process of removing the restrictions on coronarys, despite increased infection in about half of the American states. / VOA/
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday that restoring restrictions would be the last solution, while saying the virus is spreading by one “unacceptable” and refused to impose an order to make the use of masks binding in public. Texas has broken the daily record of the number of new infections for nearly two weeks as the number of hospital - based infected people increases.
The neighbouring state of Louisiana has scored more than 3,000 deaths from Covid-19, and with the increase in the number of cases, Governor John Bel Edwards said he would retain the actual restrictions expected to expire Friday.
The rate of hospital infection has also increased in Georgia, and the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus is increasing in dozens of other countries.
