Trump Administration to Offer Covid-19 Tests at Nursing Homes

The Trump administration plans to offer “point of care testing” at nursing homes across the country, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says during a press conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• The “rapid on the spot, 20 tests per hour” device will initially be given to 2,000 nursing homes, says Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary at the Health and Human Services Department
• Separately, Vice President Mike Pence says the increase in virus cases across the Sun Belt is “serious” but the U.S. is “substantially better” prepared to respond than it was a few months ...