US 'desperately' needs more tests to screen for the coronavirus, a public health expert told Congress on Friday: 'Testing capacity is not currently adequate, and we need more.'
"We don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward," heThe initial test used in America for the never-before-seen coronavirus was developed by the CDC. The new test kits are manufactured by Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., which told NBC News in a statement Friday afternoon that it had delivered enough kits to test more than 700,000 individuals using the CDC protocol.
Scott Becker, CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, which represents the 100 local and state public health laboratories qualified by the CDC to do this type of testing, could not confirm how many test kits had been received, but said more labs had received them.
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