A limited supply of the right kinds of Covid-19 tests has hampered the U.S. response to the coronavirus since the very beginning, public health specialists say.
Quest and other large laboratory operators have remained largely responsible for ramping up the country's capacity to conduct molecular diagnostic tests, which are the most accurate tests on the market, but require a specific setting, trained personnel and scarce supplies to process.making it difficult for epidemiologists to determine whether and where the virus is spreading
"I really have come to believe we have entered a real, new, emerging crisis with testing and it is making it hard to know where the pandemic is slowing down and where it's not," Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said in an interview with CNBC last week. "We are doing the appropriate amount of testing now to reduce the spread, flatten the curve, save lives," Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health and the Trump administration's virus testing czar, said on a conference call with reporters Thursday. "You do not beat the virus by shotgun testing everyone all the time."
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