MARCH 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE:
...Why Have So Few Americans Been Tested for Coronavirus?
How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse: FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.---Posted by
...Why Have So Few Americans Been Tested for Coronavirus?
On Facebook, Virginia Postrel observes, “The people who screwed this up weren’t Trumpites. They were the pros.”After problems arose with the C.D.C.’s test, officials could have switched to using successful tests that other countries were already using. But the officials refused to do so, essentially because it would have required changing bureaucratic procedures.
The federal government could also have eased regulations on American hospitals and laboratories, to allow them to create and manufacture their own tests, as Melissa Miller of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine told The Washington Post. But federal officials did not do so for weeks.
How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse: FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.---Posted by
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