Sadly, as the nation ties out one of its worst weeks in recent history, the issues that were supposed to be resolved last week as to availability of testing for COVID-19 have yet to be successfully addressed. As the linked article aptly notes, the opportunity to have contained this pandemic came and went unrealized, because the testing needed to identify and isolate cases of infection was simply not in place.
As we approach April, a fraction of testing needs are being met, and this is still a significant failure. Although the genie is now irreparably out of the bottle, it remains true that (absent willingness to bear the sheer death toll of letting the pandemic take its natural course) testing and isolation remain the key to reopening businesses and reviving the economy. Unfortunately, there has been a wholesale want of competence in our federal institutions, particularly the CDC and FDA, and so we remain at home, and essentially, on our own. Another hard lesson to bring home the point that expensive and Byzantine bureaucracies do not translate to effectiveness when the chips are down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-coronavirus-test-that-wasnt-how-federal-health-officials-misled-state-scientists-and-derailed-the-best-chance-at-containment/ar-BB11MJRy
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