Trump and CDC Director Insist Coronavirus Tests Are Working
- The number of U.S. cases exceeds 250, death count at 14
- CDC hasn’t said how many Americans have been tested for virus
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President Donald Trump and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defended the agency’s development of a test for the coronavirus, dismissing assertions that the federal agency’s missteps have handicapped diagnosis of the disease.
“Anybody who wants a test can get a test,” Trump said during a tour of the CDC’s laboratories in Atlanta. He swiftly revised the statement, saying moments later: “Anybody who right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test.”