While acknowledging the importance of testing, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said that it is only part of the solution to reopen the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Birx said Sunday that the Trump administration is working on efforts to expand testing.
"We have a team calling every single laboratory … and they are calling everyone to work with each state and local authorities to ensure that they have everything that they need to turn on full capacity, which will, we believe, double the number of tests that are available for Americans," she told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos.
"I want to be very clear to the American people, none of our tests are 100% sensitive and specific. What do I mean by that? None of our tests that we use in medicine and diagnose 100% of the people who are positive, and correctly diagnose 100% of the people who are negative," she added. Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2, 2020, in Washington.
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