Coronavirus testing czar dismisses daily testing for all Americans as utopian fantasy

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Tue, 2020-09-01 14:20 — mike kraft

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html

(CNN)Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump Administration's coronavirus testing czar, dismissed the idea of daily Covid-19 tests for all Americans as "utopian" on Tuesday.

"It's great to talk about this utopian kind of idea where everybody has a test every day and we can do that," Giroir said. "I don't live in a utopian world. I live in the real world and the real world had no tests for this new disease when this first started."

The assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services also said that the country now has a "huge diversity" of tests, including a $5 point of care test that provides results within 15 minutes.

"There is no stone unturned, there is no technology that we're not looking at or investing in if it's promising," Giroir said. "We can return to society without having everyone have a test every single day. We can do that. We're showing we can do that. ...

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