Epidemiologists have said faulty test kits coupled with a diagnostic strategy that initially targeted too few people allowed the disease to spread beyond US authorities' ability to detect it.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: Passengers from the Princess Cruises Grand Princess cruise ship board a charter plane at Oakland International Airport on March 10, 2020 in Oakland, California. Passengers are slowly disembarking from the Princess Cruises Grand Princess a day after it docked at the Port of Oakland. Some passengers will be flown to other states where they will quarantine for 14 days.
At least 28 people have died and 1,025 people have been infected, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University — nearly double the 550 total confirmed cases the day before. The failings had contributed to the virus taking root across the country, academics from Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday.
South Korea announced its first case on the same day as the United States, has tested more than 189,000 people in the same period, Business Insider reported.It relied on the same technology as one authorised by the World Health Organisation and deployed around the world — except that a fault meant the CDC kit was returning inconclusive results.
The CDC was initially only testing people with known exposure, meaning a Californian patient on a ventilator was denied the test for five days, the patient’s doctors said. The criteria were changed as a result of this case.
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