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Expected to be on the forefront in areas like this, fighting epidemics, preventing pandemics, is now trailing the world and has a respond that reminds me very much like south africa's response to the aids epidemic 10, 15 years ago. >> look, this is the third great crisis of the last two decades. we've had 9/11, then we had the financial crisis. this is the third one. domestically, testing is part of it. you've been talking about that for obviously reasons. that's just one piece of the puzzle. we've got, what, 30 million americans who don't have health insurance. at least that many don't have a...

House is not even outlining how we expand the testing. one of the things i said at the weekly saturday rally at the action networks this saturday is what about those in low-income areas, in multi-dwellings, where you have people that live in housing developments? people that go to church, and we have no access to the testing. how do we get testing sites, doctor, for example, maybe at churches and maybe at community centers? because we're in communities that don't have a lot of health facilities. by the very mnature of our need for work and income, and the fact we live in multi-developing hou d...

Country. >> right. again, we're at a stage now where containment, trying to keep people from coming in with the virus, we're past that point. now what we have is transmission within society. how do you make a society where the virus has already entered and spread, how do you make it less vulnerable? testing is essential. keeping sick people at home, essential. keeping large groups from gathering. if you have a thousand people in a room, the odds that several of them do not have the virus is increasingly nil. that's what we're seeing every time we have a convention now. cpac, people are being e...

Lack thereof across the country in just a moment. but i just have to ask basic common sense. you heard dr. gostin talking about staying away from hospitals, nursing homes, anywhere where there could be people at risk, not to have them exposed. you walk into an er, and chances are, there's going to be 20 people over the age of 60 and 70 sitting in the er, trying to get care. why are there not coronavirus testing and treatment centers being set up in localities across the country so you don't have people walking into ers and infecting the health care workers and the at-risk people sitting in the...

So it makes sense that there is so much that we don't know. what's so critical is for people to understand what's happening. we in america need to practice what we preach. we talk about other countries needing to have transparent, honest communication. not suppressing information, but being open with the public. we node to eed to do that here every level of government. >> reporter: what should we be telling our friends, neighbors, and patients this week? >> as we get more testing, we are going to find a lot more people who have coronavirus and may not know they've had it. we'll find more clust...