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Biden administration to invest over $1.6 billion to expand Covid testing, sequencing

February 17, 2021

Via: CNBC
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The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will invest more than $1.6 billion to increase Covid-19 testing supplies and expand testing programs in schools and elsewhere as well as genomic sequencing in the United States.

“We need to test broadly and rapidly to turn the tide of this pandemic,” Carole Johnson, the White House’s Covid-19 testing coordinator, said at a news briefing. “But we still don’t have enough testing and we don’t have enough testing in all the places it needs to be.”

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