Trump officials said Trump’s claim that „anyone who wants a test can get a test“ was accurate, but that people still need the approval of their doctors and state public health officials. But on Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that that “we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.”
Asked in the White House briefing about the discrepancy between Trump and Pence’s language, Azar said, “It’s just different ways of phrasing it.”
„He’s using a shorthand,“ Azar said. „We’re getting capacity out there.“
Azar declined to estimate how many people would need tests going forward, saying only that if “very aggressive containment” and community efforts worked out, the country could end up with surplus testing capacity.
Azar added that Washington, California and New York “have everything they’ve asked for in terms of diagnostics” from the federal government.
Meanwhile Pence, speaking in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a meeting with cruise executives on Saturday, told reporters that, “Doctors can prescribe tests to anyone in America regardless of their symptoms.”
Lorraine Woellert contributed to this report.
Source: politico.com
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