stephen elledge, the professor. questions, it ask is (202) 748-8000 four eastern and central. (202) 748-8001 mountain and pacific. medical professionals, (202) 748-8002. theguest is a professor at harvard medical school and brigham and women's hospital. austin, texas you are on. caller: thank you for taking my call. elledge. mr. i want to say to everybody and get y'all's comments about -- we have done this before. we did this with tuberculosis. old, iwas six years stuck out my arm, nobody had a choice, you got a tb skin test. latented for tuberculosis, people who were carrying tuberculosis had the bacteria, but did not show symptoms. but, everybody did it. it was a good test. it was easy to administer. everybody took it. there wasn't everything about -- there wasn't anything about privacy. had tuberculosis, they had serious quarantine procedures. they would lock you up in a state hospital. after the 1940's, they had drugs to give you treatment instead of it just being a tb sanitarium. is, we need good accurate testi

stephen elledge, the professor.uestions, it ask is (202) 748-8000 four eastern and central. (202) 748-8001 mountain and pacific. medical professionals, (202) 748-8002. theguest is a professor at harvard medical school and brigham and women's hospital. austin, texas you are on. caller: thank you for taking my call. elledge. mr. i want to say to everybody and get y'all's comments about -- we have done this before. we did this with tuberculosis. old, iwas six years stuck out my arm, nobody had a choice, you got a tb skin test. latented for tuberculosis, people who were carrying tuberculosis had the bacteria, but did not show symptoms. but, everybody did it. it was a good test. it was easy to administer. everybody took it. there wasn't everything about -- there wasn't anything about privacy. had tuberculosis, they had serious quarantine procedures. they would lock you up in a state hospital. after the 1940's, they had drugs to give you treatment instead of it just being a tb sanitarium. is, we need good accurate testing

stephen elledge at the harvard medical school. professor of genetics and medicine. we thank you for you c-span has unfillered coverage of the pandemic with white house briefings, updates from governors and congress and daily call-in program hearing your thoughts about the coronavirus crisis. and if you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on .emand at cspan.org/coronavirus >> massachusetts governor charlie baker held a press briefing. he announced his plan to expand testing abilities in being the highest tester. this is 50 minutes. governor baker: good afternoon. today we are going to talk about our long-term plans for covid-19 testing here in massachusetts and new announcements to make testing more accessible for people and talk about significant shipments of personal protective aquifment that arrived in massachusetts. first, we will provide our daily update on hospitalizations. as of yesterday, we conducted er 410,000 tests with over 8,500 new tests reported yesterday. and tests were reported for all tests that came back yesterday and that is within the