'Game-changer': White House details shipments of 150 million rapid virus tests
Coronavirus,Life During Covid-19,Public Health,Donald Trump
States will receive 6.5 million rapid coronavirus tests this week, President Trump said Monday, dubbing the move a “game changer” that will allow governors to protect first responders and reopen schools as his administration dispatches 150 million tests it bought from Abbott Laboratories a month ago.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, thanked Mr. Trump for the BinaxNOW tests. He said the 15-minute turnaround time will allow him to screen K-12 schoolteachers daily instead of weekly.
“We want to get 100% of our kids back in the classroom,” Mr. Reeves said in the White House Rose Garden.
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