Ex-CDC Director: COVID Testing Is Most Important Public Health Tool Amid Surge

‘Testing is really one of the most important public health tools we have right now’

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REDFIELD: “That’s a really important question and a really important situation that has to be corrected. They are two years into this and I think one of the challenges is people talk about how many tests we are doing. I don’t think people sat back and said how many tests do we need. I’m glad to see the president is going to encourage more testing with half a billion tests he’s talking about bringing online and I heard dr. Fauci say per month. I estimate the nation needs probably on the order of a billion tests per month in order to have the testing we need. Testing is not just a clinical tool, but testing is really one of the most important public health tools we have right now. It is regularly repetitive testing of people at risk for infection so we can identify the silent a symptomatic infected individual and pull them out of the transmission pool. We have not applied that effectively today.”

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