A senior Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House testing plan would provide all 50 states in the U.S. with enough equipment to test at least 2% of their residents. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said that number is nowhere close to adequate.
“It’s about 6 to 7 million [tests],” said Jha, “and if that’s one-time, that doesn’t do anything.” Continue reading.