![]() ![]() The group-working night and day, using the encrypted platform WhatsApp-emerged with a detailed plan obtained by Vanity Fair. Together, they hammered out the outline of a national testing strategy. Inside the White House, over much of March and early April, Kushner’s handpicked group of young business associates, which included a former college roommate, teamed up with several top experts from the diagnostic-testing industry. ![]() ![]() Today, as governors and mayors scramble to stamp out epidemics plaguing their populations, philanthropists at the Rockefeller Foundation are working to fill the void and organize enough testing to bring the nationwide epidemic under control. The irony is that, after assembling the team that came up with an aggressive and ambitious national testing plan, Kushner then appears to have decided, for reasons that remain murky, to scrap its proposal. Considerable blame belongs to a federal response that offloaded responsibility for the crucial task of testing to the states. Six months into the pandemic, the United States continues to suffer the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in the developed world. ![]() So is an even more extraordinary effort that Kushner oversaw: a secret project to devise a comprehensive plan that would have massively ramped up and coordinated testing for COVID-19 at the federal level. Though Kushner’s outsized role has been widely reported, the procurement of Chinese-made test kits is being disclosed here for the first time. ![]()
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