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Tommy Thompson: “With testing, our testing, that was the biggest problem from…”

Featuring: Tommy Thompson, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Exclusive: Tommy Thompson on coronavirus outbreak, response

Published | Video Starts at 06:48

Right now there's a lot of angst. I was reading today that Germany has had lower deaths given the caseloads they set up testing back in January. We've really fallen down. Yeah. With testing, our testing, that was the biggest problem from the beginning. We didn't take the WHO test, and we wanted to develop our own test, and we thought we had enough time. We didn't have enough time, and we still haven't tested enough people. (06:48–06:53)

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