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The US neither (1) didn't take it seriously enough, and (2) CDC's initial test kits didn't work properly. Korea and other nations in the area took it seriously
by hkmurakami 7y ago
The US neither (1) didn't take it seriously enough, and (2) CDC's initial test kits didn't work properly.
Korea and other nations in the area took it seriously due to their proximity to China and previous recent experience with infectious disease: HK experienced SARS, Korea experienced MERS.
- senderista 7y agoThe US could have used the WHO test in the meantime.
- m0zg 7y agoI've read that it couldn't. Those kits were never offered to the US: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/health/who-coronavirus-tests-cdc/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/health/who-coronavirus-tests-...
- officialjunk 7y agocouldn't? sounds like the US didn't even try asking. the article says: "No discussions occurred between WHO and the CDC about providing tests to the United States" and "US chose to design its own coronavirus test"
- BurningFrog 7y agoCDC and/or FDA also banned everyone in the country from doing tests themselves.
- BoiledCabbage 7y agoAnd more importantly, the Administration never stepped in to fix it no matter how obvious a problem it was causing. It took them ages to have the FDA make an emergency exception to allow private testing.
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- chasd00 7y agoactually reshaping FDA policy in the time they did is nothing short of miraculous. I know teams of 5 that can't change their way of doing things that fast.
- BoiledCabbage 7y ago> actually reshaping FDA policy in the time they did is nothing short of miraculous. Yeah no. Not remotely. It was dead obvious. I think you're underestimating the influence a call from the head of the executive branch has. This was easily fixable weeks earlier.