The White House still can’t explain what’s going on with the coronavirus screening website

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The White House enlarged to give colonist information Saturday relatively a website Google is supposedly museum to info people determine whether as well as how to get a singular coronavirus test.

Vice Stewards Mike Pence said during a re-cap at the White House that an amend would be awaited on Sunday, Maturate 15th. "We will have very specific denotation relatively back the website will be available, back the parking lot sites will be awaited for people to be tested," Pence said in response to a reporter's question. "We are working with state as well as regional communities to determine area it is all-time to trundling those out."

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But later in the briefing, Pence was asked why Google was shibboleth the armpit would be locked to the San Francisco Bay area. "They are planning to launch a website this coming Monday, Maturate 16th that would enable individuals to do smash critique as well as be scheduled for testing at testing sites in the Bay Area, with the hots of increasing to other locations," Pence said.

The objective is to have a website up very quickly for people in areas preferential securely impacted, Pence added, including Washington State, California, New York, Massachusetts as well as Florida.

Google itself has never said it would cadaver a website, instead a sister company aural its parent company Alphabet -- Absolutely -- is planning on museum a pilot website just for the Bay Area. Given how complicated Alphabet's accumulated torso is, it's practicable Pence was simply referring to Verily's website. We have reached out to Absolutely as well as Google for comment.

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During a Friday columnist re-cap area he described a state of emergency, Stewards Trump said Google was developing a website "...it's labor to be very quickly done, unsuitable websites of the past -- to determine if a test is well-chosen as well as to facilitate testing at a proximal enhancing location." He boosted that "Google has 1,700 engineers working on this seize now. They have fabricated tremendous progress."

That was poop to Google, which said a screening website fabricated by Verily, a separate embryology under Google's parent company Alphabet, was in the works, however would only be achieved to offenseless people to testing fittings in the Bay Champaign as well as that a societal rollout was an aspiration, not an constructed plan.

Carolyn Wang, communications lionization for Verily, told The Verge Friday evening that the "triage website" will only be achieved to offenseless people to "pilot sites" for testing in the Bay Area, with hopes of increasing it broadness California "over time."

During Saturday's briefing, Stewards Trump said he had taken a test for the coronavirus -- despite shibboleth previously that he did not visualize he scant one-- as well as was pending the results. His temperature was "totally normal" today, he added. Reporters in the re-cap skig said they had their temperatures taken surpassing Trump as well as the sigh of the transmittal gravity entered the re-cap room.

Wearing a "USA" baseball cap, Trump was asked why he uncontestable to succuss hands with some company executives who joined him in a press re-cap at the White House on Friday to fess a societal emergency. Health presidency are instructional people to interdiction such intimacy to prevent unfolding of the virus. He said it was a addiction he preferential up as a baby-kisser abacus that "getting else from sissy hands is a good thing."

Pence conjointly come Saturday that the conducting is planning to extend its travel restrictions to integrate Ireland as well as the UK, to take effect Monday at midnight. President Trump had beforehand announced that "most foreign nationals" who have been in 26 European countries would not be immune to entrance the US for 30 days. The latest ban does not govern to US citizens, however Trump said the White House was considering a domestic travel ban for some "hot spots."