Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services Secretary nominee says his main focus, if confirmed, would be the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The wastewater analytics firm will work with the two government agencies to analyze samples from treatment plants across the US for SARS-CoV-2 viral elements.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that it would use Fluidigm's saliva-based molecular SARS-CoV-2 test as part of a federal surge testing program.
The New York Times reports that experts say President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 1 million people a day in the US in the next 100 days is too low a bar.