NEW: President Trump announces that the administration is “sending $1 billion to America’s states, territories and tribes” to help “build up” coronavirus testing capabilities across the nation.
experts that much greater testing and contact tracing are essential for a safe return to normalcy.
US President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with military leaders and his national security team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on May 9, 2020. During an interview with Fox News Friday morning, the president ticked through the current testing figures, continuing to tout the U.S. as having"the best tests." When asked about the positive test result for one of his valets, the president offered the same argument.
"I will tell you, you look at some cases, some people think they're doing it for politics," Trump continued, suggesting some Democratic governors are moving slowly to undercut him politically."Here we go again. But they think they're doing it because it will hurt me the longer it takes to -- to hurt me in the election, the longer it takes to open up."
Many Democratic governors and public health experts, meanwhile, say testing combined with contact tracing, which involves tracking down others with whom the infected person had contact, is the most effective way to slow the spread until a vaccine is available.
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