The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing

This is what happens when you elect utter incompetents to run the federal government, and they cut off funding for public-benefit agencies. The American people are getting exactly what they voted for. Expect things to get much worse.

This article is irresponsible. The federal government has been forthcoming about the problem with one component in the test kit they released. They provided a work-around quickly and have updated the test protocol and are releasing updated test kits. At least where I sit in New York State cooperation between our Democratic Governor and the Federal Agencies has been a good example. New York can now produce test kits and are quickly ramping up to 1000 tests per day.

I would note that this was made possible by scientists with federal (and state) funding to obtain the structure of the virus quickly and that these results helped guide the development of test kits.

What can be done to change this situation rapidly? Countries like South Korea and China are able to run tens of thousands of tests daily. What is it about their testing regimes that makes them so much more scalable than the US's?

The media is seeing this as a political propaganda event, watch as this is spun into a major campaign issue, with massive finger pointing

It turns out government institutions shrivel and die when you try to strangle them. Who'd a thunk?