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Why America now has the most coronavirus cases. (Japan Times, 3/28/2020)
Early on in the outbreak, President Donald Trump was accused of downplaying its severity, saying that sustained community spread was not “inevitable” even after a senior health official said it was, which could have led to a sense of complacency.
As the illness took root, first in the West Coast states of Washington and California, the U.S. was unable to perform meaningful levels of contact tracing because it was so slow off the mark with testing.
The government initially refused to relax regulatory hurdles that would have allowed states and local health departments to develop their own test kits based on guidelines provided by the World Health Organization, and all early samples were being sent to the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Then the CDC sent out faulty test kits to the states, adding to delays. [emphasis added]
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Giving the Trump administration its due on the coronvirus response (Dr. Rick Bright edition). (5/6/2020)
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