US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report surge in coronavirus cases, deaths as Dr Anthony Fauci says testing will be stepped up
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, leaves after testifying during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Trump Administration's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
Fauci and other health officials also said they have not been asked to slow down virus testing, in contrast to Trump’s claim last weekend that he had ordered fewer tests be performed because they were uncovering too many infections. “We will be doing more testing,” Fauci pledged to the House committee.New cases in the US have been surging for more than a week, after they had been trending down for more than six weeks.
Arizona, where Trump was headed for a speech at a Phoenix megachurch, reported a new daily record of nearly 3,600 additional coronavirus infections Tuesday. Republican Representative David McKinley of West Virginia asked if Fauci regretted that the American public wasn’t urged sooner to wear face masks, and then interrupted before the visibly annoyed scientist finished answering.Early in the pandemic there was a “paucity of equipment” for health workers “who put themselves daily in harm’s way” and “we did not want to divert” those scarce supplies, he said.
Brett Giroir, a Health and Human Services assistant secretary, told lawmakers on Tuesday the next step is testing patient samples in large batches to stretch limited supplies, which would expand US screening between fivefold and tenfold. More than a dozen vaccine candidates are in various stages of testing around the globe, and the US next month is poised to begin the largest study — in 30,000 people — to get the needed proof that one really works.
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