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President Trump‘s support for protests calling for an end to state stay-at-home orders contradicts his administration’s own health experts and Vice President Pence. Trump has used state governors as a new political target, even though public opinion is largely tilted in favor of the stay-at-home orders.
Meanwhile, testing is still an issue. The White House says the country is already producing enough tests to enter “phase one” of the administration’s reopening plan. But governors have been contradicting administration officials who say states have the ability to conduct plenty of diagnostic tests.
Experts say the country needs to be testing people on a much larger scale than is happening now, and that doesn’t even include the antibody tests. Administration officials on Sunday touted 4 million tests that have been performed, but that was the number the administration promised would be conducted by mid-March. Continue reading.