About an hour after the nation’s top public health officials denied to Congress that President Donald Trump had ordered a slowdown in COVID-19 testing, news broke that the federal government was winding down support for local testing sites in states like Texas that continue to break daily case records.The
About an hour after the nation’s top public health officials denied to Congress that President Donald Trump had ordered a slowdown in COVID-19 testing, news broke that the federal government was winding down support for local testing sites in states like Texas that continue to break daily case records.
“COVID-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in Texas, and it must be corralled," Abbott said during a news conference this week from Austin. “Closing down Texas again will always be the last option.”Dallas County, which has the second-highest number of cases in the state behind Houston’s Harris County, will lose federal assistance at two testing sites, according to Rocky Vaz, the director of emergency management for the city of Dallas.
“When you test—when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people,” Trump said, while speaking at the first mass indoor public gathering in the country since the pandemic sparked statewide in mid-March. “You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.”
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