States Not Hitting Testing Goals; Feds Promise Aid

Assistant Secretary for Health Brett P. Giroir, MD

Ingrid Katz, MD, associate faculty director, Harvard University’s Global Health Institute; associate physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

Eric Blank, DrPH, chief program officer, Association of Public Health Laboratories.

Senate COVID-19 Hearing, 5/12.

HHS.gov: “HHS Supports State, Territorial and Tribal Public Health Labs with COVID-19 Rapid Point of Care Test.”

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Pandemics Explained: “HGHI and NPR publish new state testing targets.”

Association of Public Health Laboratories: “General Consulting.”

The Washington Post: “What I Learned Taking the Free Coronavirus Test Offered to Everyone in Los Angeles.”

 The New York Times: “See Which States Are Reopening and Which Are Still Shut Down.”

NPR.org: “U.S. Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short. How’s Your State Doing?”

The Covid Tracking Project.

FierceBiotech: “FDA greenlights its first coronavirus antigen test for rapid point-of-care screening.”

American Heart Association: “COVID-19 science: Why testing is so important.”

Worldometers.info: “Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance.”