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While the president insists states have more testing capacity than they understand, the administration is working with private industry to inject more swabs, tubes, reagents and other necessary testing supplies into the marketplace.

Admiral Brett Girioir, who promised 27 million tests would be available by the end of March, said the lack of testing supplies is “an end to end issue that we needed to deal with.” The administration has secured contracts for an additional 30 million swabs.

Elevated caseloads in Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston continue to be of concern.

Monday's briefing spanned one hour and thirty nine minutes.

When (and how) will football season start? Major put those questions to executive director of the NFL Players' Association DeMaurice Smith.

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