Hard truths and important facts': Biden pushes for

Hard truths and important facts': Biden pushes for coronavirus testing reset with $50 billion plan
Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
https://news.yahoo.com/hard-truths-important-...04218.html
Sun, January 24, 2021, 12:28 PM

President Joe Biden seeks to reset the nation’s inconsistent coronavirus testing efforts with a $50 billion plan and more federal oversight.

Biden’s plan calls for a newly created Pandemic Testing Board to coordinate a “clear, unified approach” to testing for COVID-19, a marked difference from the Trump administration’s policy of states establishing their own plans with federal support.

Laboratories have ramped up production to more than 2 million tests each day, but stubborn problems persist. Some labs struggle to complete timely tests – particularly when demand surges – because of shortages of critical supplies. (Innova has a capacity of 2 million test each day now, and is ramping up to a capacity of 5 million test kits per day by the end of February.) https://innovamedgroup.com/innova-medical-gro...alifornia/

Public health labs largely are not equipped to detect new coronavirus variants such as ones first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa. And there's debate among testing experts on whether wider use of cheaper but less sensitive rapid tests will be the smartest path out of the pandemic. (Innova antigen test can detect the new coronavirus variants) https://innovamedgroup.com/innova-sars-cov2-a...-variants/