HHS testing czar Brett Giroir predicted Tuesday that the U.S. will be able to test more than 25 million people per month for the coronavirus by August or September. That would be roughly twice the 12.9-million test goal the administration set for May and announced Monday at a Rose Garden briefing.
The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world.
This weekend alone, health authorities identified at least 38 cases of minors suspected of being sick with the new syndrome. The “Pediatric Multisystem Inflammation Syndrome” seems to be moving forward with similar inclemency as its predecessor coronavirus in New York City. This weekend alone, municipal health authorities identified at least 38 cases of minors suspected of being sick with the new syndrome associated with COVID-19 that mainly affects blood vessels.
The United States’ top infectious disease expert plans to testify at a Senate hearing that moving too quickly to ease restrictions could undermine the country’s quest to return to normalcy.
Congress has appropriated roughly $175 billion so far to help hospitals and other health care providers weather the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. But some are still struggling to keep up with the need, and racial disparities in the American health care system are magnifying the problem.