The bottom line is that the CDC and the FDA did a terrible job and their rules and red tape caused delays. The New Yorker throws in a bit of anti Trump nonsense, but the problem was with the bureaucracy, not Trump. That won’t stop reporters from continuing to ask him if he is to blame or dumb ass posters from pointing fingers at him.
As for the delay in scaling up covid-19 testing capacity during those crucial weeks in February, Jerome told me that the underlying problem had far less to do with the faulty tests produced by the C.D.C. than it did with a system that could not contemplate, let alone manage, the possibility that the C.D.C. might end up producing faulty tests. The F.D.A.’s exclusive authorization to the C.D.C. to conduct covid-19 tests ended up creating “what you’d think of as an agriculture monoculture. If something went wrong, it was going to shut everything down, and that’s what happened.” Jerome said that his lab has taken its own steps to mitigate this problem. “We’ve built three completely independent testing pathways in our laboratory, so that if there’s a shortage of a reagent or a bit of plastic, we have other ways to do the testing.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-went-wrong-with-coronavirus-testing-in-the-us
As for the delay in scaling up covid-19 testing capacity during those crucial weeks in February, Jerome told me that the underlying problem had far less to do with the faulty tests produced by the C.D.C. than it did with a system that could not contemplate, let alone manage, the possibility that the C.D.C. might end up producing faulty tests. The F.D.A.’s exclusive authorization to the C.D.C. to conduct covid-19 tests ended up creating “what you’d think of as an agriculture monoculture. If something went wrong, it was going to shut everything down, and that’s what happened.” Jerome said that his lab has taken its own steps to mitigate this problem. “We’ve built three completely independent testing pathways in our laboratory, so that if there’s a shortage of a reagent or a bit of plastic, we have other ways to do the testing.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-went-wrong-with-coronavirus-testing-in-the-us
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