Industry Urged White House To Invest In COVID-19 Tests Long Before Current Shortage: AdvaMed
Executive Summary
The lobby group says the takeaway from the test shortage is the government should engage industry to prepare and ramp up test production before the next wave of variant infections in the ongoing pandemic.
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