Joe Biden is ramping up Covid-19 testing — but is it enough?
last January. “That means more tests, increased lab capacity, and genome sequencing.”
The news is only slightly better when it comes to testing capacity in the United States — that is, the first step in the CDC’s Covid surveillance system. Compared to overall surveillance, “there seems to be more emphasis on being able to widely test individuals,” says Stephanie James, the head of a Covid testing lab at Regis University in Colorado. But you need both — the close look and the wide view — to create a clear picture of the pandemic.
Half a billion tests isn’t a lot in a country with 330 million people, Knight points out. “It is a woefully inadequate start,” he says, “and I predict a lot of debates even within each family about who and when to test.”boost America’s dismal test rate. Just four out of every 100,000 Americans get tested every day,Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California.
It’s a problem we should have solved a long time ago. Ideally before the pandemic; more realistically, once it was clear — two years ago — just how dangerous the novel coronavirus might be.
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