. @GovTimWalz confirms a testing announcement is coming.
Had to cut out the quotes from officials to get the details out. I& #39;m sure we& #39;ll hear plenty in a few minutes. Watch this space for that.
. @GovTimWalz enters the room for his press briefing. As far as I can tell, only his chief of staff Chris Schmitter is wearing a face mask.
"We are smothering this issue of testing with what I would argue is talent better than anyplace on the planet," Walz says.
Walz getting into the intricacies of the diagnostic/serology testing (Scroll up in this thread for more).
He says the plan will allow for "massive surveillance testing that we& #39;re seeing works in other countries."
He says the plan will allow for "massive surveillance testing that we& #39;re seeing works in other countries."
Walz says the plan will be a strategy to "test all symptomatic people, isolate confirmed cases and expand health surveillance."
Walz alludes to research for treating #covid19. Not sure how much that fits into this plan.