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Alphabet’s Verily struggles to live up to Donald Trump’s hype on Covid testing
In mid-March, Pete Massaro felt like he was in over his head. The global coronavirus pandemic was spreading quickly through the U.S., and Massaro, an engineer at Verily, the life sciences unit owned by Alphabet Inc., had suddenly been tasked with heading up the company’s efforts to help speed testing people for Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. He now had three days to open two drive-through testing sites.