Academics say faulty test kits and diagnostic strategies contributed to virus taking root nationwide. FMTNews Covid19 Coronavirus
A nursing home worker walks away from a facility near Seattle, the centre of the outbreak in Washington.
The rise is linked to an expansion in testing as the bulk of diagnoses have shifted from federal to state laboratories. Speaking at a White House briefing, Vice President Mike Pence defended the federal government’s response and said that “a million tests are in the field”. He added that more would be added as the government partnered with private companies.By way of comparison, South Korea, which announced its first case on the same day as the US, has tested more than 189,000 people, according to a report in the Business Insider.
It was not until Feb 29, the date of the first US death and more than a month after the first confirmed US case, that the Food and Drug Administration lifted a ban on state laboratories developing their own kits based on the WHO’s tests.“Adopting broader testing criteria and allowing use of a wider range of tests would have been helpful in identifying the first US cases and containing the spread,” said Michelle Mello of Stanford, a co-author of the Jama report.
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