Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that wealthier people in the United States have access to coronavirus testing while the majority of the country does not.
“It almost seems like the more wealthy and powerful you are, the more able you are to access a test, but the more — the rougher road [that] you’ve got, here, it’s going to be a lot more difficult for you to access healthcare,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a Thursday interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier. “That is exactly the recipe for disaster in a pandemic.”
Responding to the president’s claim that the U.S. has “the best healthcare,” Ocasio-Cortez noted that South Korea is testing approximately 10,000 people and can provide a test to “any single person that wants it” while Americans “are scrambling.”
Coronavirus testing in the U.S. has been a cause for concern, with fewer than 100 Americans being tested per day, according to Yahoo News.
Stephen Redd, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, revealed that the total number of people tested for the coronavirus by the CDC was 1,784 as of his testimony in front of Congress on Wednesday.
