First death from #COVID19 reported in the US. The fact that the first cases detected are severe, means more widespread transmission is ongoing.
Botched response - only two months after the start of the epidemic, is the US ramping up diagnostic testing.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/coronavirus-news.html …
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*Immediately* after this announcement, SPHLs started up on the assays they already had in house—the effect was same day.https://www.mass.gov/news/statement-on-the-start-of-testing-by-the-massachusetts-state-public-health-laboratory-for …
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... again, *immediately* being two months after the start of the epidemic. An additional problem is that while MA may be able to begin today (if indeed that's what happens - the statement doesn't say that), this is not true in most of the country.
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Agreed this is way too late—from the outside looking in, my guess is that perhaps they assumed solely relying on the IRR mechanism for activating >50 SPHLs was going to work just fine in early Feb, and there wasnt a plan for when it didn’t.
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Jon had some good background - written yesterday, but I only just saw it. Explains what's going on (and why this is really subpar...):https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve …
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