Georgia, Michigan and Oklahoma are among the states where coronavirus outbreaks are intensifying — and where per capita testing rates are some of the lowest in the nation
As the coronavirus marches from America’s coastal cities to its heartland, testing gaps in the South and Midwest are crippling efforts to contain emerging hot spots in smaller cities and rural areas.
But those advances haven’t trickled down to Oklahoma, where a lack of basic testing supplies has hampered the coronavirus response, says Shelly Zumwalt, chief innovation officer for the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services. “Hopefully this week and into early next week, we will have a much better idea of what the population looks like as far as where the hot spots are,” Zumwalt told POLITICO. Oklahoma State University’s lab — which can process about 2,300 tests a day — will soon start testing patient samples from across the state.
“There’s a perfect storm I worry about in certain states where their commonality is that they have low testing and low social distancing guidelines,” Slavitt told POLITICO. Oklahoma, for example, has put in place limited “stay at home” guidelines that apply to the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions, not to the general public.
“Honestly, I think we need a point-of-care test that we can stand up at health clinics or retail establishments like drug stores,” Banning said. “Physicians are really notoriously very poor reporters” of test results, Engel said. Point-of-care tests “are good for the clinical side, but they are going to displace laboratory based tests and public health surveillance is likely going to lag.”
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