Flawed tests, red tape and resistance to using the millions of tests produced by the WHO

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/cdc-who-coronavirus-tests/

By Peter Whoriskey and Neena Satija

March 16, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. EDT

When Olfert Landt heard about the novel coronavirus, he got busy.

Founder of a small Berlin-based company, the ponytailed 54-year-old first raced to help German researchers come up with a diagnostic test and then spurred his company to produce and ship more than 1.4 million tests by the end of February for the World Health Organization.

“My wife and I have been working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, ever since,” Landt said by phone about 1 a.m. Friday, Berlin time. “Our days are full.”

By contrast, over the same critical period, U.S. efforts to distribute tests ground nearly to a halt, and the country’s inability to produce them left public health officials with limited means to determine where and how fast the virus was spreading. From mid-January until Feb. 28, fewer than 4,000 tests from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were used out of more 160,000 produced.

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This is going to cost hundreds of thousands of lives...

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump is responsible.

Whether he has the guts to admit it or not.

[Phoenix61]

2. Yes it will and the blame needs to be laid at the feet of the Republican party

This is their fault. All of it. And we need to say it over and over again.