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Coronavirus Podcast: Rural America has its own coronavirus problem
Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s testing coordinator, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the average turnaround time for coronavirus test results is 4.27 days and acknowledged that he’s “never going to be happy” until that figure is reduced.Why it matters: Long backlogs make testing less useful — public health officials need…
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Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s testing coordinator, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the average turnaround time for coronavirus test results is 4.27 days and acknowledged that he’s “never going to be happy” until that figure is reduced.
Why it matters: Long backlogs make testing less useful — public health officials need to know what their local situation is like now, not what it was like a week ago. Delays are especially problematic if people who are infected continue to go about their lives while they wait for their results.
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