--- type: Topic title: Testing and surveillance description: "Diagnostic testing capacity, surveillance and case data." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 235 sources: - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: letter_dni, resource: /sources/letter-dni.md, title: Chairman Paul Letter to DNI Gabbard, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2025-10-30 } - { id: nih_public_comments, resource: /sources/nih-public-comments.md, title: NIH Hid Public Comments Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Diagnostic testing capacity, surveillance and case data. Tagged on **235** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 126 documents * [Sarah J. Imhoff](/people/sarah-j-imhoff.md) - 13 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 8 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 3 documents * [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates.md) - 3 documents * [Kevin C. O Connor, D.o., Faafp Physician TO THE President](/people/kevin-c-o-connor-d-o-faafp-physician-to-the-president.md) - 2 documents * Alison Kraigsley - 1 documents * [Carrie Wolinetz](/people/carrie-wolinetz.md) - 1 documents * Chris Whitty - 1 documents * [Dan Diamond](/people/dan-diamond.md) - 1 documents * [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) - 1 documents * [George Korch](/people/george-korch.md) - 1 documents * Heidi Ledford - 1 documents * Paul LeBlanc - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2020-03-27** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (instructs): "Critical issue that I feel strongly about and discussed with Cliff is that if we are going to lift restraints on certain areas, we must have the capability of flooding the system with people to do identification, isolation (out of the home) and contact…" [^fauci_diary] * **2020-05-14** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "@Eddie Holmes The remarkable thing about this little rant is that he seems to be implying that he was running the two PCR tests POTUS mentions as well as the BioFire HIMSELF." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-09** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "We will soon face the problem that if we see blips that are not contained by contact tracing, will the administration say damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead or will they pull bak." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-06-14** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "It is critical to how we handle these with identification, isolation, and contact tracing." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-06-24** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "In Califronia, we have built up a statewide contact tracing platform called CALConnect and we are on our way to have nearly 10,000 contact tracers throughout the state as our phase I program." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-06-25** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I told him that our response regarding contact tracing and isolation was a "Fucking disaster and an abject failure" Also, he fully appreciates that the CDC is not up to the task." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-07-08** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I recommended that they work with cities (like LA, Atlanta) that can utilize their efforts to actually do effective identification, contact tracing, and isolation." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-10-08** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The guidelines say 10 days from onset of sxs and 2 PCR tests (24 hours apart) that are negative." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-10-17** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "He explicitly wants to never do contact tracing and never isolate any person who is infected." [^fauci_diary] * **2020-10-30** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Cases will continue to hit all time highs week over week because the core mitigation efforts and targeted testing for asymptomatic infection are not occurring resulting in continued and escalating community spread leading to increasing hospitalizations and…" [^fauci_diary] * **2021-01-05** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (questions): "Korea & China all used conserved primer target sites and other nations did not, it's a disgrace.CDC boasts on their website that they controlled SARS w/accurate testing and contact tracing.We still have no viable reliable testing program???```" [^slack_pm] * **2021-01-25** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "Yes a bigger study - these two likely others are probably already looking at structures of the new variants, but yours will really get their blood boiling.CDC declined to come and do any contact tracing, but did offer up some advice for quarantining the…" [^slack_pm] * **2021-09-29** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): ">> Over 2019 the number of procurement contracts for the test is required for COVID-19 - the PCR test -- suggests the virus was highly likely to be spreading virulently in Wuhan, China as early as the summer of 2019. >> The total spent on PCR test systems in…" [^slack_pm] * **2021-09-29** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "I think Sanjay or whoever misunderstands that a 'PCR test' isbasically reagents." [^slack_pm] * **2021-11-29** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I explained that now anyone coming into the country who is not an American citizen needs to be vaccinated as well as having a test before they get on the plane whereas American citizens and LPRs need to be tested before they get on the plane and when they…" [^fauci_diary] # Matching terms High-confidence: `testing capacity`, `pcr test`, `diagnostic test`, `contact tracing`, `surveillance system`, `sequencing surveillance` Supporting: `test`, `testing`, `assay`, `positivity`, `case counts`, `reporting` # Sources [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^letter_dni]: [letter_dni](/sources/letter-dni.md) [^nih_public_comments]: [nih_public_comments](/sources/nih-public-comments.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)