North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said dine-in eating, hair and nail salons, barbershops, churches and pools will be open on Friday
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, speaks with USA TODAY, on May 11. USA TODAY/Imagn Content Services Coronavirus testing in the United States is disorganized and needs coordination at the national level, experts said in a new report released Wednesday.
Right now, testing is not accurate enough to use alone to make most decisions, including who should go back to work or to school, the team at the University of Minnesota said. “It’s a mess out there,” Mike Osterholm, head of the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy , which issued the report, told CNN.The number of tests that have been completed – numbers widely reported by states and by the White House – show only part of the picture, the report reads. “Pandemic messaging needs to move beyond ‘Test, test, test!’ mantras, as the current testing reality is complicated and depends on a cascade of interconnected factors — and our approach must be strategic,” the report reads. The report also says that antibody tests should be used only with caution. These tests check the blood for evidence of an immune response to the virus, and indicate that someone has been infected for some days or has even cleared an infection. They are most useful for identifying donors of plasma used to treat patients or for deciding on how to manage patients when standard diagnostic tests are negative, the report says. The report calls on the US Department of Health and Human Services to appoint a panel to oversee and organize testing. “The panel should include representatives from public health, clinical laboratory, and medicine; the laboratory testing research and development, marketing, and product support industries; ethicists; legal scholars; and elected officials,” it says.
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