There are some pretty widespread differences in testing between countries. They had done over 140,000 tests on Friday compared to about 500 in the US and were getting the tests turned around much faster between application and result. I don't want to make this political either but US testing has until now been disastrous and we really need to revisit the ways in which CDC, HSS, and FDA policies and regulations interact to prevent this from happening in future crises.
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There are some pretty widespread differences in testing between countries. They had done over 140,000 tests on Friday compared to about 500 in the US and were getting the tests turned around much faster between application and result. I don't want to make this political either but US testing has until now been disastrous and we really need to revisit the ways in which CDC, HSS, and FDA policies and regulations interact to prevent this from happening in future crises.
Many of the regulations were from previous administrations and have already been rolled back.
They have shipped 1.5 million tests out to universities and private labs w/ more being made.
They have created a way for 3rd parties to create their own tests. LabCorp and Quest are already up and running. Many others will be ready Monday.
I'm just happy the administration shut down traffic from China early on, even though the move was labeled as xenophobic, which is silly.
Politicizing is evident when you ignore all the good things and highlight a minor mistake (initial CDC testing limits due to a bad ingredient)
I just don't get what this gets you, especially when they are doing the thing you want them to do.
I'm not sure what else you'd like to be done.