'No one wants to wait 26 days for a test result for a highly infectious deadly disease.'
"We don't have nearly enough tests," said Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation."The delays in the current testing system render much of the testing we're doing right now relatively ineffective for actually controlling the pandemic."
The foundation, a bipartisan group of experts, said the U.S. faces an"impending disaster" and should allocate at least $75 billion more for COVID-19 testing to ensure that tests are"free and accessible to all who need them." That includes low-income and"There will be 100 million cases of the sniffles," Shah said.
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