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Vice President Mike Pence: thousands more people will get coronavirus
WASHINGTON – Thousands more Americans will become infected with coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday in a round of media interviews in which he "settled" the question of whether the virus is more lethal than the seasonal flu.
Pence also acknowledged that congressional leaders have pressed the administration on why the United States didn’t use a coronavirus test kit developed by the World Health Organization. Officials have previously admitted that testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got off to a “slow start.” The vice president said that issue came up when he and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, briefed congressional leaders before President Donald Trump’s address to the nation Wednesday night.
Fauci told lawmakers it’s standard practice to develop its own tests instead of relying on the WHO, Pence said.
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Trumpian BS. Let's just wait until we finally come out with our own instead of relying on those proven & readily available European test kits in the interim.
WASHINGTON – Thousands more Americans will become infected with coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday in a round of media interviews in which he "settled" the question of whether the virus is more lethal than the seasonal flu.
Pence also acknowledged that congressional leaders have pressed the administration on why the United States didn’t use a coronavirus test kit developed by the World Health Organization. Officials have previously admitted that testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got off to a “slow start.” The vice president said that issue came up when he and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, briefed congressional leaders before President Donald Trump’s address to the nation Wednesday night.
Fauci told lawmakers it’s standard practice to develop its own tests instead of relying on the WHO, Pence said.
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Trumpian BS. Let's just wait until we finally come out with our own instead of relying on those proven & readily available European test kits in the interim.