The White House is asking governors for help in getting high-tech lab machines up and running to process coronavirus tests.
In a conference call with governors Monday, Vice President Mike Pence asked governors for “whatever you can do” to help get testing machines found in hospitals, research laboratories and other places running at full capacity. The Associated Press obtained audio of the call.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said on the call that she’s working with labs around the country to make sure the machines are running at full capacity.
The machines “have a need for a lot of technical support” and require trained operators to run them, Birx said.
“In the last three weeks, we could have run 3 million tests. We’ve run 200,000,” she said.
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(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
