Yesterday, while speaking on the Senate floor, Senator John Cornyn finally admitted the need for a better testing strategy for COVID-19, including testing of asymptomatic individuals. This marked a decisive change in tune from his usual downplaying of the importance of testing in general, and strategic testing of asymptomatic people in particular, here and here and here and here and here and again here. This reversal comes amid Texas experiencing record numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitals reaching ICU bed capacity. Imagine what Senator Cornyn could have […]
