Many things contributed to the United States' lack of testing kits
South Korea had run more than 300,000 tests as of Friday, and while there is no official count of tests done in the United States, Dr. Deborah Birx, part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, implied about 170,000 people have been tested so far. The US population is more than six times that of South Korea.
Doctor: For the first time in my career I'm afraid 04:11It was weeks before new CDC tests were sent outMichael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said that in addition to originally sending out flawed tests, the CDC added to the confusion by providing limited information to labs in the weeks that followed. "There was a period of time after the tests were recalled where there was near silence. It was about two weeks.
Doctor's message to those not taking coronavirus seriously 00:50More than 100 virologists and other specialists wrote a letter to Congress on February 28 that said many of their labs had already validated tests for coronavirus that they could not run due to the FDA's protocol for approving tests during outbreaks -- known as emergency-use authorization.
Tapper rips Trump: At least stop making things worse 02:12 Severe shortages of swabs and other supplies Even though commercial labs ramped up the testing, medical workers at several state health departments, hospitals and labs told CNN that they're running low on materials needed to conduct the tests, like swabs, reagents, which are the testing chemicals, and pipettes, which are tools for transporting liquids.
Congressman with virus: I feel as sick as I've ever been 02:00"Over the next few months, you will begin to see that other tests that were utilized around the world were not of the same quality, resulting in false positives and potentially false negatives," Birx said Tuesday. "It doesn't help to put out a test where 50% or 47% are false positives," she added.
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