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The federal response to COVID-19 on March 1 was defined by a basic failure: the U.S. still did not have enough usable testing capacity, and official statements were starting to concede the bottleneck. That mattered because without testing, the administration could not see the outbreak clearly, much less contain it.
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The federal response to COVID-19 on March 1 was defined by a basic failure: the U.S. still did not have enough usable testing capacity, and official statements were starting to concede the bottleneck. That mattered because without testing, the administration could not see the outbreak clearly, much less contain it.
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The federal response to COVID-19 on March 1 was defined by a basic failure: the U.S. still did not have enough usable testing capacity, and official statements were starting to concede the bottleneck. That mattered because without testing, the administration could not see the outbreak clearly, much less contain it.
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