Washington (CNN) Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Friday that the White House coronavirus task force is "seriously considering" pool testing for Covid-19 and acknowledged to The Washington Post that the Trump administration's current testing strategy has proven inadequate. The proposal is still in the discussion stage, Fauci told CNN, and it was not announced at a task force press briefing on Friday afternoon. A source close to the White House Coronavirus Task Force told CNN that a real schism has developed among the group over the issue of testing. Several members of the task force feel that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not handled testing well from the beginning. The source also mentioned the need for "pooled testing," a method of testing that can scale up and test much larger numbers of people.

Source: CNN June 26, 2020 13:47 UTC