Senator Alexander: Testing Levels Inadequate to Open Campuses – Inside Higher Ed
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Senator Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who chairs the Senate’s education committee, on Sunday praised coronavirus testing in the U.S., citing Johns Hopkins University research that eight million tests have conducted, more per capita even than South Korea.
But Alexander said current testing capacity remains inadequate for reopening large college and university campuses for in-person instruction.
“It’s enough to do what we need to do today to reopen, for example, but it’s not enough when 35,000 kids and faculty show up at the University of Tennessee campus in August,” Alexander said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
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