Birx: Testing must be performed 'down to the community' for accurate reopening timeline

Source: The Hill | April 19, 2020 | Zack Budryk

Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus response, said Sunday that coronavirus testing must be focused more on individual communities as those communities and their states develop plans for reopening.

“We’re a series of independent curves … the New York metro area had the most explosive experience with the virus, and then we look to Seattle, which has been containing the virus and contact tracing and really finding a series of small outbreaks,” Birx said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.  “Having that first nursing home outbreak helped them really put in public health measures that has kept their curves very low.”

“Each of these [regional] epidemics will have a different testing need and that’s what we’re calculating now,” she added. “If you give Americans knowledge they will translate that into protective actions. We have to really get them information in a much more granular way than a national way or a state way. It needs to be down to the community.”

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