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COVID-19 Update: Biden blasts testing shortfall; Biogen to manufacture Vir’s mAbs; Gates funding Inovio’s device; Cruz wants reciprocal approvals

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March 12, 2020 9:19 PM UTC
Updated on Mar 24, 2020 at 11:40 PM UTC

Joe Biden Thursday blasted the Trump administration for the slow rollout of COVID-19 tests and Tony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that the response has been “a failing.”

Total U.S. COVID-19 testing capacity increased incrementally Thursday to about 20,000 tests per day, according to a tally from the American Enterprise Institute. Trump administration officials have said they cannot provide estimates of testing capacity. ...