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Trump hopes for 2 million tests per week by end of May — the low end of experts’ estimates of what’s needed to reopen
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a “blueprint” to increase capacity for coronavirus tests nationwide, the latest step in the White House’s effort to help states gradually roll back dramatic lockdown measures.
While the blueprint itself contains few specifics, a number of private companies, including CVS and Walgreens, pledged to work with the federal government to quickly add capacity to conduct millions of tests per month. Top Trump health aides pledged at Monday’s White House briefing that the new effort would create capacity to conduct as many as 2 million tests per week by the end of May to “give the American people confidence that we can reopen and get our economy moving again,” Vice President Mike Pence said.
