During an appearance on "Fox & Friends" on Monday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams discussed the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Adams reinforced the idea of social distancing and washing of the hands, but also said that a "turning point" has been reached in testing for the virus.
Adams said, "We’ve reached a turning point. Important for people to know that the CDC stood up a test in less than one week for a new virus, so that was a record, but the CDC was never designed to provide hundreds of millions of tests. It was designed to respond to outbreaks. So, we went from CDC testing, which was slow by almost design, and then we actually stood up 83 different state labs, and you saw testing increase there. But the turning point was last Thursday when the FDA approved a new rapid throughput test, which will exponentially increase the amount of new tests that can be run. … You’re starting to see more testing at the local level."