At least half of U.S. states will not meet a White House goal on nursing home testing due to costs and a lack of resources, an Associated Press analysis found
“We really believe that all 1 million nursing home residents need to be tested within next two weeks as well as the staff,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House task force coordinator,Nearly two weeks later, the Associated Press found that at least half of the states will not meet the White House threshold; only a few, including West Virginia and Rhode Island, have indicated they reached the goal already.
Many states said they lacked the logistics, costs and personnel to conduct such an effort in such a short timespan. Other states, such as Nebrasksa, told the AP they were not going to try and reach the goal and were instead sticking to Centers For Disease Control guidelines, which call for testing individually when nursing home residents show symptoms or if there is a new confirmed virus case in a home. When asked why he was not making the nursing home test goal an order on May 11, Trump said he would “consider it.” “I would certainly consider that,” heNebraska Chief Medical Officer Dr.
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