US suffers from coronavirus testing shortage: “We’ll fix it soon,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci

The paucity of evidence coronavirus covid-19 observed in U.S It will be resolved soon, the doctor assured this Sunday Anthony Fauci, adviser to the White House in the fight against the pandemic, while the country observes an outbreak of cases due to the omicron variant.

“One of the problems right now is that (the tests) won’t be fully available to everyone until January,” the epidemiologist told ABC network.

“We are tackling the testing problem and that will be fixed very soon.”he continued, also acknowledging his frustration at this shortage.

On the occasion of the end of the year holidays, U.S met an especially high demand for evidence, specifically kits to do at home.

At the same time, with an average of more than 175,000 new infections a day in the last week, according to Sunday data from the CDC, the main federal public health agency.

These coincident events are partly responsible for the “high demand” and the resulting shortage of evidence, he said. Fauci.

“Obviously we have to do better,” he said.

President Joe Biden announced last week the purchase by the federal government of some 500 million kits that will be given free to anyone who requests them.

But these tests will only be available in January, fueling strong criticism of the White House, whose strategy to combat the covid-19 it has focused mainly on vaccination.

On December 6, days after the presence of omicrons was first detected in the United States, when asked by the press, presidential spokeswoman Jen Psaki simply replied: “We should send all Americans a free trial, right? ? ”.

Referring to the characteristics of omicron, Fauci said this Sunday that it is about an “extraordinarily contagious” variantBut he cited studies carried out in South Africa and the United Kingdom that seem to indicate that the cases are less dangerous.

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