New: Trump says the Deptartment of Education will not enforce standardized testing requirements this year. Watch the administration's daily coronavirus briefing here:
President Trump and Vice President Pence attend a teleconference with governors at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters on Thursday.President Trump and Vice President Pence attend a teleconference with governors at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters on Thursday.With concerns mounting over supply shortages in combating the coronavirus, the Trump administration is trying to show it's in control of the sprawling crisis.
Birx said that underscored the need to continue to protect the most vulnerable populations, including those in nursing homes, and more broadly for all Americans to keep up the mitigation procedures that have disrupted life across the nation. That should result in less complexity for schools and students that have been badly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, officials hope. Trump also reiterated that he'd used his authority to suspend student loan interest payments for two months.
She said that her state lab had run out of reagent supplies needed for testing and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had pushed for her state to order through commercial suppliers that were canceling orders. She said that in one case, a hospital received reagents even though it wasn't equipped to run tests for the coronavirus.
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