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Athletes getting tests? do the well connected go to the front of the line? >> you have to ask them that question. i've read -- no, i wouldn't say so. but perhaps that's been the story of life. that does happen on occasion. >> reporter: the federal government, working to expedite so-called "self swab" testing kits to protect health care workers. the kits could be sent home, where a patient would do a simple nose swab. a tech would then pick up a sealed sample. considered less intrusive than the current test. a process the president himself has experienced. >> i can tell you, because i did it, b...

It is completely due to lack of testing. >> we're in a race now. we're trying to race ahead and get the testing capacity ahead, and what this testing allows us to do is to sort of isolate the exposure from person to person of this virus spreading so that we can slow it down. >> reporter: health officials in hard-hit washington state reporting they have the test kits but doctors are running out of protective gear to collect samples. >> the state desperately needs n-95 masks, gowns, and gloves brought into the community. i think there is some indication that we'll get some, and i just don't thin...