From WSJopinion: America’s lack of preparation for the pandemic had devastating health and economic consequences. We can build the capacities to prevent this from happening again, write ScottGottliebMD and Mark McClellan.
A surge in demand for Covid-19 tests is straining supplies, and patients have to wait too long for results. LabCorp, which handles about 25% of U.S. Covid testing, is adding more machines and employees and is running 180,000 tests a day, up from a few thousand a week in March. Quest and BioReference Laboratories are also overextended.
The ability to coordinate a surge in testing capacity is essential in a medical crisis. This isn’t the first time an epidemic has put stress on capabilities. In 2015, the mosquito-borne Zika...
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