100% there is a shortage of reagents and kits. There are certain countries that are not letting reagents and kits ship out, and we are in no position to call t

100% there is a shortage of reagents and kits. There are certain countries that are not letting reagents and kits ship out, and we are in no position to call them out on that. >That doesn't stop the American press making it sound like not achieving those 500,000 tests a day is the result of some uniquely American political failing though. I don't think we're unique in where we are in comparison with other countries as far as testing, but we are in a unique position in regards to being able to put some strong leverage on getting other countries to work together to respond to this pandemic. We're not doing that and as a result, other countries are having to "roll their own" response to this pandemic just like we are. The lack of coordination within our country is putting us at a unique disadvantage, even if we had better coordination world wide. This pandemic is a exceptional global crisis in a way we've never seen before, and thus should've led to a addressing it at a global scale in a way we had never seen before. Instead the global response has been crippled in numerous ways at various different points in time. The American political failing is in not being the true world leaders, and the world is, IMHO, worse off for it.