'For the past few weeks, we have followed President Donald Trump's dangerous and deluded advice, memorably delivered from a stage in Tulsa Oklahoma six weeks ago, 'to slow the testing down, please,'' writes Kent Sepkowitz for CNNOpinion
Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Public health experts know that the only way forward in this pandemic is to increase, not decrease, testing. This is how other countries reined in their outbreaks -- testing, plus doggedly tracing and isolating people who are infected. Here In the United States, the National Basketball Association, now playing games without interruption, has shown the effectiveness of a very aggressive testing policy.
dr kent sepkowitzBut don't look now, America: for the past few weeks, we have followed President Donald Trump's dangerous and deluded advice, memorably delivered from a stage in Tulsa Oklahoma six weeks ago,"to slow the testing down, please." Bigly. And the drop in testing is happening at the same time that case numbers across the US have shown a drop as well, the latter to great fanfare; the former without a peep.There are several groups that track national testing numbers.
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