VP Pence: "We don't have enough tests" to meet demands

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The number of coronavirus cases continues to rise throughout the country along with the demand for tests. Vice President Pence says "we don't have enough tests" to meet that demand. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Seema Yasmin join Anderson Cooper to give the latest updates about where test kits can be found. Members of Congress were briefed by the White House Coronavirus Task Force about the latest developments. Democratic Congressman David Cicilline tells AC360 what he learned and why he thinks the President is creating confusion with his contradicting comments. Airdate: March 5, 2020To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, just today after he said that anyone who needed to get tested for coronavirus
0:04.5	now could, Vice President Pence to acknowledge that at least for now and perhaps the foreseeable
0:08.7	future, this might not be possible.
0:12.8	We don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going
0:21.3	forward.
0:22.3	The Vice President is now in Tacoma, Washington, where he and Washington Governor Jay Inslee
0:25.8	are about to talk to reporters.
0:27.1	We're going to be monitoring that news conference, bring you any late developments.
0:31.8	In Washington, the death toll due to the coronavirus rose from 10 to 11 nationwide in total.
0:37.4	12 people have died so far.
0:39.2	The number of infected has risen as well.
0:41.1	There are now at least 226 people who have tested positive with the virus in 19 states.
0:47.5	Those numbers really don't tell the entire story because of how few Americans have actually
0:51.8	been tested.
0:52.8	We'll talk more about that shortly.
0:54.5	However, testing has begun on passengers aboard that cruise ship off the coast of California.
0:58.8	You see it there.
0:59.8	Authorities are using Coast Guard helicopters to fly testing kits out to the ship and then
1:04.4	ferry them back to a lab.
1:06.7	California's governor says the ship will not be allowed to dock in San Francisco until
1:09.6	the results are in.
1:11.0	And in other developments, the economic side effects are growing.
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