“I think the CDC guidelines are really right on target,” White House coronavirus testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir tells GStephanopoulos, contradicting Pres. Trump, who said that CDC guidelines for re-opening schools are too tough and too expensive.
While Trump this week said the country is in"a good place," Giroir, who serves as the assistant secretary of Health in the Department of Health and Human Services and coordinates the federal government's coronavirus testing programs, characterized the current situation as"a better place" than in April but said to expect hospitalizations and death rates to rise in the coming weeks.
"We do expect deaths to go up. If you have more cases, more hospitalizations, we do expect to see that over the next two or three weeks before this turns around," Giroir acknowledged."It's starting to turn now, but we won't reap the benefits of that for a few weeks." "Just because someone says we need 1.7 million tests a day, doesn't mean that that's true. We think we have enough test today to identify where the hotspots are," he said.When Stephanopoulos pressed the testing czar on the persistence of long wait times in hotspots, Giroir replied,"yes and no."
"There is no medical reason, except for maybe one in a million, that people can't wear a mask according to the guidelines we have," he said.
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