'The idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. Let's admit it,' Fauci said when he testified before Congress last week. вЂњThe system is not really geared to what we need right now - what you are asking for. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institute of Health, one of the nationвЂ™s top public health experts, was more frank in his assessment, calling the country's testing capacity 'a failing.' 'You may not get a test unless a doctor or public health official prescribes a test,' he said, adding 'that is our medical system in the United States.'Дr. That same week, however, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar walked back those claims to White House reporters.

In early March, Trump initially claimed that testing is 'going very smooth,' that 'anybody that needs a test can get one,вЂќ and that the tests 'perfect' and 'beautiful,' in separate trips to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to Capitol Hill. MORE: Government response updates: Trump heads to FEMA amid hospital equipment shortagesД®xperts: Access to testing has been limited 'We've already seen that,' Cohen added, 'with COVID-19.' 'The danger in providing inaccurate or politically-motivated information in a pandemic,' Cohen said, 'is that people will either panic because they don't have confidence that the government is protecting them, or people will disregard the crisis altogether and fail to take the safeguards to protect themselves, their family and their communities.' 'All you had to do was look at other countries.'Д¬ritics, meanwhile, point to several occasions in which Trump either downplayed the threat of the virus or overstated the government's capacity to mitigate the crisis, leaving some Americans confused at a critical time.ДЄccording to John Cohen, former Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security, who is now an ABC News contributor, clear and accurate information from the government in times of crisis is necessary to ensure public safety. 'I've felt it was a pandemic before it was called a pandemic,' he said.

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