The polling data was released the day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that 10.1 million, or 3.3 percent of Americans, have undergone testing for the new coronavirus.
Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded nearly $583 million to 1,385 health care facilities in the U.S. to expand testing for COVID-19, that money was allocated under the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act and signed into law by President Donald Trump on April 24.
"This new funding secured by President Trump will expand the work health centers are doing to test Americans for COVID-19," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a press release."Widespread testing is a critical step in reopening America, and health centers are vital to making testing easily accessible, especially for underserved and minority populations.
Meanwhile, concerns about COVID-19 testing and the availability of needed supplies and services for hospitals are not just waning overall, but also along political party lines, gender and race. The Gallup survery found that men are overall less worried than women, whites less worried than non-whites, and Americans 50 and older are less concerned overall than those who are in the 18-29 age demographic.
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