Biden Calls for More Virus Testing, Public Health Jobs Corps
- Democrat calls poor testing “original sin” of virus response
- Presidential candidate calls for 100,000-person testing corps
A medical worker puts a specimen bag into a styrofoam box at a Covid-19 testing site in Berkeley, California, U.S.
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Joe Biden called on the Trump Administration to vastly expand the country’s testing capabilities for the coronavirus, including launching a new public health jobs corps of 100,000 people to assist with the testing and contact tracing, as he laid out his vision for safely reopening the economy in a new memo on Monday.
In a lengthy plan written by Biden and his public health committee, the presumptive Democratic nominee criticized the president’s inaction on testing and detailed how the country should expand its capabilities in order to catch a spike in infections before it spreads.