GOP chairman says nation needs ‘millions’ more tests to safely reopen

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Thursday that the United States needs “millions more tests” to safely reopen the economy. “To test every nursing home, and every prison, everyone in an operating room, and some entire classes and campuses and factories, teams at sports events, and to give those tests more than once, we will need millions more tests than we’re producing today,” Alexander said at a hearing examining…