A bipartisan group of 7 US governors banded together to purchase COVID-19 testing equipment in the absence of a strong federal testing program

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• Seven states — Maryland, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, North, Carolina, and Virginia — have entered into an agreement to purchase 3.5 million COVID-19 tests.
• "With severe shortages and delays in testing and the federal [Trump] administration attempting to cut funding for testing, the states are banding together to acquire millions of faster tests to help save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said in a statement.
• The states are purchasing antigen tests, which can produce results in less than 20 minutes.
• However, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, "antigen tests have a higher chance of missing an active infection."
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Seven governors from across the United States have joined together to bulk purchase coronavirus tests, it was announced Tuesday.

"With severe shortages and delays in testing and the federal [Trump] administration attempting to cut funding for testing, the states are banding together to acquire millions of faster tests to help save lives and slow the spread of COVID-19," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said in a statement.

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