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O’DONNELL: “Part of what we’re all learning, Joe, are some of the bureaucratic steps that are involved in this. We’ve asked in a couple of these briefings about the World Health Organization test, and the most fulsome answer we’ve had so far came yesterday. The President stepped aside from the lectern and he let Admiral Giroir and Dr. Birx, two of the experts on the frontline of this, Admiral Giroir in charge of testing now, and their answer to this is that the World Health Organization provided an early stage test that had not met FDA approval for quality and it was different methodology and they said flat out there wasn’t a ready test offered to the United States that was turned down. Now, we have to do more work on this to find out some of the distinctions there, and they are saying that there was never a time that they were given something that was ready for use in the field that they turned down."