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California, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia broke records for daily new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. That — among other things — had the mayor of America’s second-largest city worried about a new Covid-related crisis.
“We’re going to see across this nation a testing emergency,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in response to a question from Deadline. He predicted a national squeeze on lab personnel, testing materials and contact tracing.
“We need national leadership, so this isn’t a dog-eat-dog [process],” said Garcetti. If states are pitted against each other again, as they were in the scramble for Ppe when the virus first took hold, then distribution becomes a zero-sum equation, he indicated. “If Florida does well, California suffers,” and so on.
CNN reported on Wednesday that Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego also says her city is facing “a huge testing shortage.”
“People...
“We’re going to see across this nation a testing emergency,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in response to a question from Deadline. He predicted a national squeeze on lab personnel, testing materials and contact tracing.
“We need national leadership, so this isn’t a dog-eat-dog [process],” said Garcetti. If states are pitted against each other again, as they were in the scramble for Ppe when the virus first took hold, then distribution becomes a zero-sum equation, he indicated. “If Florida does well, California suffers,” and so on.
CNN reported on Wednesday that Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego also says her city is facing “a huge testing shortage.”
“People...
- 7/9/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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