Katty Kay: Testing Is Going To Be What Allows Us To Start Reopening up the Economy

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KAY: "Yeah. In a sense, the United States is fortunate to have had a road map to this. We had China and we had Europe to look at. For a while I believe there was an element of disbelief here thinking we’re not going to be like that. I think the real change that has come in the White House in the last 24 hours, thankfully, is a realization that yes, the United States is not different from those other countries. It is going to be like that. And we look at Wuhan, which is just now starting to open up, people being allowed back into the city, that’s January, February, March, so that’s three months; we look at Italy, they’ve already had I think it’s now five weeks on lockdown, they’ve got another four or five weeks at least to go. And if you follow that pattern, that takes us, and probably always did, Joe, I mean when we were talking about this two weeks ago, we probably could have said, 'Yeah, this is going to take us through March, April, May,' and any idea that we were going to get out of this quicker than other countries had was fanciful. Some of this, we have to keep going back and asking these questions of the White House, where is the testing, where is the testing, where is the testing, because the testing is going to be what allows us to start reopening up the economy. If the President is still worried about the economy and talking to his business advisors, then we need to keep asking him about the testing. Because the testing here is not just the key at the beginning of this."