“Medical experts, such as Boston University's Sandro Galea, have called the federal response a "fiasco." Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who stood behind Trump at the White House, acknowledged on Thursday that federal testing efforts had failed, leaving everyone, including public health experts, ignorant of the outbreak's true toll nationwide.
"The federal government has consistently underestimated the need for urgency around testing for this virus," Galea told BuzzFeed News.”