Pence Explains the Failure to Meet Testing Goals in a Supremely Unhelpful Way – Mother Jones

During Monday’s White House press briefing on coronavirus, a reporter asked Vice President Pence to explain the discrepancy between the number of tests he’d promised would be available mid-March—4 million—and the number of tests that were actually done by that time, a much lower figure. The United States did not reach its goal of conducting 4 million tests until April 20. (By contrast, a plan developed by a Nobel Prize–winning economist and a former FDA chief suggests the US should be testing 3 million people per week before re-opening even parts of the economy.) .....
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/pence-explains-the-failure-to-meet-testing-goals-in-a-supremely-unhelpful-way/