What’s slowing down coronavirus testing

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

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Summary

Juliet Eilperin explains the delays in widespread testing. Young people aren’t as vulnerable to the coronavirus, but the crisis is affirming their political frustrations, Hannah Knowles reports. And Michelle Lee on campaign fundraising in a pandemic.

Why is it taking so long to ramp up coronavirus testing?

Generation Z is fed up with the status quo. Coronavirus could affirm their beliefs.

Joe Biden posted the biggest monthly fundraising haul of his campaign in March. Will the pandemic slow him down?

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:08.4	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:09.9	Hi, this is Elaheiz Adi with the Washington Post.
0:13.3	They.
0:14.3	This is Post Reports.
0:15.3	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.7	It's Tuesday, April 21st.
0:21.0	Today, why it's taking so long to ramp up testing?
0:27.4	The story we haven't heard about young people in coronavirus and fundraising in a pandemic.
0:36.3	We have a great testing system.
0:37.7	We have the best right now, the best testing system in the world.
0:41.0	For the last several weeks now.
0:44.1	We have tremendous testing capacity.
0:47.0	Testing is expanding very rapidly by millions and millions of people.
0:51.6	President Trump has been saying that the U.S. is winning at testing for coronavirus.
0:56.2	That's something, right?
0:57.2	We're doing a great job, we're.
0:59.9	But according to senior national affairs correspondent Juliet Albrin, President Trump's
1:04.5	narrative on testing doesn't give the whole picture.
1:08.0	As of Monday, the U.S. has reported doing about 4 million tests.
1:12.1	This is through kind of cumulative tracking, partially being, you know, crowdsourists and
1:17.5	what's being reported by states and so forth.
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