Testing Fixes Still Look More Like Damage Control Than a Plan
Federal health agencies spent April 29 trying to shore up the country’s broken testing picture, with the CDC and FDA continuing to issue updates and the government talking up new diagnostics efforts. That may sound routine, but it underscored a deeper failure: by late April, the administration was still in catch-up mode on the basic infrastructure needed to know where the virus was spreading. The day’s official materials suggested movement, but not mastery. The public-health consequence was simple and ugly—without reliable testing, reopening became guesswork dressed up as policy.
First recorded Apr 29, 2020·Meaningfully updated Apr 29, 2020
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Testing Fixes Still Look More Like Damage Control Than a Plan
Federal health agencies spent April 29 trying to shore up the country’s broken testing picture, with the CDC and FDA continuing to issue updates and the government talking up new diagnostics efforts. That may sound routine, but it underscored a deeper failure: by late April, the administration was still in catch-up mode on the basic infrastructure needed to know where the virus was spreading. The day’s official materials suggested movement, but not mastery. The public-health consequence was sim…
Federal health agencies spent April 29 trying to shore up the country’s broken testing picture, with the CDC and FDA continuing to issue updates and the government talking up new diagnostics efforts. That may sound routine, but it underscored a deeper failure: by late April, the administration was still in catch-up mode on the basic infrastructure needed to know where the virus was spreading. The day’s official mate…
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