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White House Turns to Corporate America to Fix Testing Shortfall

  • CVS, Walmart and other chains ramp up parking-lot virus tests
  • With screening key to restarting economy, Trump seeks reboot
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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The Trump administration is leaning heavily on the nation’s drug retailers and lab-testing companies to try to solve a problem that has vexed it since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic: Getting mass testing up and running smoothly.