The Trump administration says it is going ahead with plans to end federal support for COVID-19 testing on Friday
expected peak of the coronavirus crisis,
the Trump administration says it is going ahead with plans to end federal support for COVID-19 testing on Friday, transitioning the responsibility for managing and funding the sites to states. Across the country, 40 Community-Based Testing Sites that FEMA and the Department of Health and Human Services established will either be shuttered or taken over by state governments. The FEMA/HHS sites were created to rapidly scale up testing abilities nationwide at the beginning of the crisis.
A FEMA spokesperson said that the federal testing sites were always meant to be temporary: “The Community-Based Testing Sites program was intended as an immediate high impact intervention to bring initial testing capabilities to critical areas across the country… now that the FDA has given approval for individuals to self-administer COVID-19 nasal swab tests at testing sites, the demand for PPE and trained health care providers will significantly be reduced.
But Drexel University epidemiology and biostatistics professor Usama Bilal told the station that the lack of federal funding will hit the state’s poor the most.
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