The United States doesn’t have enough coronavirus tests for anticipated demand, Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday, as he appeared to push back the target date of distributing enough test kits to conduct nearly one million tests. But Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar told reporters on Friday that the administration’s production and shipping of tests was on schedule.
Speaking to reporters in Minnesota, Pence said: “We don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.” He said the administration wanted to have enough tests to cover anyone who wanted to be tested.
