US Senator’s Report Blasts Trump Admin For COVID Test Failures, Suggests Improvements
Executive Summary
The Senate health panel’s ranking member, Patty Murray, critiqued the Trump administration’s slowness in scaling up coronavirus testing, and suggested fixes in a new report.
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