The U.S. performed a record 1 million tests on Saturday but issues remain.
The United States needs to"own up to the fact that we didn't do a good job" up until this point of the Covid-19 pandemic, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said during a Fox News Sunday interview, adding that the slow turnaround for testing results remains"outrageous."... [+]"Unfortunately we did a very poor job and you can just see that in the numbers," Gates said.
The inability to create a testing structure as seen in countries like South Korea"led to us having not just a bad spring, we've had a pretty tough summer and sadly because of the seasonality, until we get these new tools, the fall is looking to shape up as pretty tough as well," Gates said. After remaining fairly stagnant through the end of summer into September, the U.S. performed a record 1,061,106 Covid-19 tests on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University, but labs are still dealing with supply shortages and delays in results.
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