U.S. must collect this data in order to contain pandemic, former CDC director says

Judy Woodruff: With more than 1,000 deaths reported yesterday, many states are struggling to contain COVID outbreaks. As we just heard in Stephanie's report, former CDC head Dr. Tom Frieden says, to do that, the country urgently needs much better collection of data. Dr. Frieden joins me now. He ran the CDC from 2009 to 2017. He's now president of Resolve to Save Lives. It's a global health initiat

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There's been too much focus on the number of tests, and not enough focus on whether they're being done in the right way, on the right people, with the right actions taken when they come back.