Missouri Gov. Mike Parson unveils aggressive plan to ramp up COVID-19 testing to 7,500 per day

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said earlier this week he set a goal of reaching 7,500 tests a day throughout the Show-Me State. To reach that goal, Parson released details of a testing plan on Thursday that focuses on three main strategies – box-in outbreaks, sentinel testing and community sampling. The box-in strategy – the state’s plan to go to where an outbreak is occurring an offer testing to everybody in the area on a volunteer basic – will…