Public health experts say the CDC made early missteps that limited its capacity to test for Covid-19.
Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images: U.S. health officials made crucial mistakes in its initial response to the coronavirus that public health expertshindered the government’s ability to treat the virus earlier—including the use of faulty testing kits and limiting how many people could be tested—but officials say relief is on the way with more testing capacity.
Public health experts say the CDC’s first critical misstep was opting to create its own testing kit rather than use one provided by the World Health Organization,When the CDC on February 4 did send out its own test kits to labs across the country to confirm cases on-site, some wereAnother problem: Because hospitals couldn’t use their own in-house tests in lieu of the CDC’s flawed one, they had to send samples to one of a dozen labs with testing capability and the results then had to be...
As a result of the bottleneck, the CDC enacted strict criteria over who could be tested, which only included recent travelers from China or people who had contact with an infected person, a move health officials say failed to diagnose early cases of the virus in
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