White House Health Aide Warns ‘Spike’ in Virus Cases Coming

  • Pence vows coronavirus testing to ramp up rapidly this week
  • More testing will mean more cases uncovered, says Birx
Deborah BirxPhotographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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Expanding testing for the Covid-19 virus in the U.S. will result in a “spike in the curve” over the next week as more cases are uncovered, a top White House aide said.

“For those of you who watched China, and China reporting, remember when they changed their definition and all of a sudden there was a blip in their curve? We are going to see that,” Dr Deborah Birx, virus response coordinator, said at a briefing by the White House coronavirus task force.