“There will be tens of thousands of tests in the days and weeks ahead” to check for the coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence vowed on Fox’s “Hannity.”
He said that last week 10 states nationwide started drive-thru testing centers, but “they were using the old manual testing methods in labs, which could only test about 40 to 60 people a week."
However, the vice president said that “now we have what are called high-throughput tests, automated tests that can literally test thousands of people a day for the coronavirus."
This was made possible, Pence insisted, because two weeks ago President Donald Trump “brought together the top commercial labs in the country and because the FDA moved in record time.”
Pence emphasized that the public "can be confident that now that we have the commercial labs around the country with those high-speed automated tests, you're literally going to see tens of thousands of tests in the days and weeks ahead for the American people."
He added that the federal government would lend a hand to state efforts and be “working with them to make sure that those great retailers… that are opening their parking lots for drive-thru centers are included."
Pence also encouraged everyone to adhere to the coronavirus guidelines put out earlier this week, saying "We need every American, every American business to step forward and recognize that if we act now, we can limit the spread of the coronavirus significantly and ultimately save lives.”
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