U.S. Coronavirus Testing Gets A Potential Breakthrough
U.S. public health experts say they're "flying blind" because they need much more testing to know how widespread the outbreak is. But a just-approved test could be a game-changer.
by Chris Arnold
Mar 13, 2020
2 minutes
In what's looking more like a public health debacle, the U.S. has a serious testing problem with the coronavirus. Only around 15,000 people have been tested so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And public health experts say that's not nearly enough to know how widespread the outbreak is and how to respond.
But the Food and Drug Administration has just approved
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