Trump Says New Virus Testing Strategy Will Allow U.S. Reopening
- Trump criticized after promising retail testing in March
- CVS, Walgreens announce more than 1,000 test sites at stores
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The White House issued a strategy to expand U.S. testing for the coronavirus on Monday, accelerating President Donald Trump’s push to reopen the economy even as the nation’s outbreak approaches 1 million infections.
The new guidance to states to help them build testing capacity, developed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, was coupled with announcements by retailers including Walmart Inc. and CVS Health Corp. that they would open hundreds of new sites to provide tests.