NEW: Dr. Fauci says federal government is trying to expand testing, not slow it down it, as President Trump has said he told his people to do. To his knowledge, “none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing — that just is a fact,” Fauci says.
In his testimony, Fauci said the coronavirus threat right now is a “mixed bag” because the U.S. has been “hit badly” with more than 120,000 deaths and 2.5 million infections.
“The way you address that — and I’ve said this over and over again — is you have to have the manpower, the system, the testing to identify, isolate and contact trace in an effective way so that when you see those increases, you can understand where they're coming from. And you can do something about them,” he said.
If those efforts are unsuccessful,"then you have the danger of having a gradual insidious increase in community spread, which will be much more difficult to contain as the community spread amplifies itself," he warned."I still think there is a reasonably good chance that by the very beginning of 2021, that if we're going to have a vaccine, that we will have it by then," he said.
Giroir said in his opening statement that the U.S. has conducted more than 27 million tests and is now averaging 500,000 a day. He said that"the need for testing is greatest" now that the country is reopening.
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