Governor Tim Walz says Minnesota has 17-hundred samples that need to be tested for COVID-19, and the state can’t do it because the federal government diverted materials to other states with larger outbreaks. He says, “We’re supposed to have high testing capacity in 14 of the most infected areas, but what it did was, it dried us up to basically zero.”
Walz says a “centralized testing regime” has disrupted the supply chain of critical elements for COVID testing. He contends the state needs a better handle on the number of cases to take appropriate steps to control the outbreak.