WASHINGTON - Frustrated by a lack of federal leadership, governors of both parties are trying to forge a national coronavirus testing program without the White House's help.
The group includes Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia, and the states are already in discussions with test manufacturers Becton, Dickinson & Co and Quidel Corp. It brings together politicians of different parties, despite Trump's effort to sow dissent before the November election."This appears to be a joint rebuke based in joint exasperation," said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communications at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.
Last month, the Washington Post published an excerpt of his coming book in which he said Trump's lack of leadership had forced governors to confront the deadly virus on their own. He said officials have been working with governors and that there have been"no complaints from any of them." The US leads the world in its number of coronavirus cases, with Americans accounting for more than a quarter of infections worldwide and a fifth of total deaths.
Today its head is Rajiv Shah, a physician and former US Agency for International Development administrator during the Obama administration who led responses to crises like the Ebola pandemic in West Africa.It put out an ambitious plan calling for"launching the largest public health testing program in US history," with the help of thousands of small labs, billions in investments and the use of digital platforms to track the screenings and manage supply needs.
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