Healthcare DIVE June 3, 2020
Dive Brief:
- Several governors on Tuesday called for better centralized federal procurement and distribution of critical COVID-19 testing supplies like diagnostic swabs and reagents, saying a lack of coordination from the Trump administration is hindering efforts to ramp up testing as they look to safely reopen their economies.
- Michigan has reached 15,000 tests per day, with the goal of 30,000 tests per day, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, told the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee. But, though the state has lab capacity to run 200,000 tests a day, supply shortages and uncertainty are a major hurdle to increasing volume, she said.
- Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said he thinks it’s “been a fair balance” in terms of authority,...
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