Medical, Political and Economic action in the face of the Pandemic

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United States
n 28 January 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the
leading public health institute of the U.S. government—announced
they had
developed their own testing kit.
Despite this, the United States
had a slow start in testing,
which obscured the extent of
the outbreak.
Testing was marred by defective
test kits produced by the federal
government in February, a lack
of federal government approval
for non-government test kits (by
academia, companies and hospitals)
until the end of February,
and restrictive criteria for people
to qualify for a test until early
March (a doctor's order was required
thereafter).
By 27 February, reported fewer than 4,000 tests had been conducted
in the United States. By 13 March, fewer than 14,000 tests had
been conducted. On 22 March, the Associated Press reported that
many people with symptoms and a doctor's order still had to wait
hours or days to be tested.
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