Colorado government Jared Polis
Jared Schutz PolisSunday shows a preview: Trump, lawmakers weigh on COVID-19, masks, and school reopens amid a surge of Colorado Woman virus in employees of the viral video call store asking him to wear a mask ‘Nazi’ disapproval of Trump’s coronavirus response jumps to 60 percent amid surge: MORE survey (D) Sunday called the national testing effort for the coronavirus “a total disgrace.”
Cops criticized the response time of about a week for Americans to get test results during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“The national testing scene is a total disgrace,” said the governor, saying that the tests sent to private laboratories take between seven and nine days, “perhaps six if we are lucky.”
He said the timeline makes the results “almost useless from an epidemiological or even diagnostic perspective.”
But Polis said the state lab has “done Yeoman’s job,” with 2,000 to 3,000 tests per day and “even more” with private lab partners in the state.
“While some are still shipped out of state, and unfortunately that takes a long time, and we can’t count on that and our country needs to do the tests properly, we are trying to develop that capacity in Colorado to process the tests at that point. one to two days, “added Polis.
CLOCK: Governor Jared Polis (D-Colo.) Says that “the scene of national tests is a total disgrace.” #MTP # IfItsSunday @ GovofCO: “All the tests we send to private laboratories nationwide … [are] almost useless from an epidemiological or even diagnostic perspective. “pic.twitter.com/NFyzku8YaX
– Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) July 19, 2020
Moderator of “Meet the Press” Chuck todd
Charles (Chuck) David ToddChuck Todd: “No editorial view” on any MSNBC Fox News daytime newscast interviewing Trump on Sunday Tapper criticizes Cuomo “singing” about handling COVID-19: “No other state has lost so many lives “MORE He noted that “many other states are doing more testing per capita” than Colorado.
“I would say that in general the states with the highest number of cases will have the highest tests, the highest positives, probably also the highest negatives,” Polis replied.
Colorado has documented 39,788 positive cases of the coronavirus, with 432,848 people analyzed, according to state data. A total of 1,615 state deaths are attributed to COVID-19, and the state reports that 1,752 deaths occurred among people who had COVID-19.
Nationwide, the United States has evaluated more than 44.9 million people, according to the COVID monitoring project. The country has identified more than 3.7 million cases and at least 140,120 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday granted emergency use authorization for Quest Diagnostics to begin pooled testing to increase testing capacity.
The United States has struggled during the pandemic to keep up with the evidence, as more than half of states are failing to meet their targets, according to a New York Times report.
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