Coronavirus: Testing critical to reopening, but we don't have enough - Business Insider

showed up in the US in January, the country's leaders — President Donald Trump and big-state governors alike — have shut down schools, businesses, and public gatherings and instructed people to remain home in order to curb the spread of the virus.

"It's like getting Apollo 13 back to Earth," Cuomo said on Wednesday. Mark Levine, a New York City councilmember and chair of the city's health committee, said on Thursday there were approximately 10,000 tests conducted in the city each day. Despite the challenge, Apollo 13 has to be landed. And doing that will take unprecedented cooperation between the private sector, state and local governments, and federal agencies. On Friday, Cuomo issued an executive order instructing private and public labs to coordinate with the state to ramp up diagnostic testing.

on Thursday evening. That plan, Trump said in a Thursday evening press conference at the White House, is predicated on widespread testing, tracking, and isolating of infected individuals.

Over five million tests already is a lot. More coming.

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