New York City hospitals are scrambling to find swabs needed to test for coronavirus, according to an alert sent out by one of the city’s top doctors
NEW YORK — Saturday. The shortage comes at the same time officials are talking about widespread testing as a necessary tool to reactivate the economy.
If the city were to run out of these swabs, it would severely curtail official's ability to confirm cases of coronavirus and keep tabs on the movement of the disease. And in the long run, a protracted shortage would hobble Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vision for bringing the city's economy back online.
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