Coronavirus Cases In US Rise After Testing Delays
CORONAVIRUS – The number of novel coronavirus cases on the US rise after testing delays.
The novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has killed 4,000 people and has infected 113000 people worldwide. The death toll keeps on rising. Governments around the globe intensified their efforts to combat the spread of the deadly virus from China.
In a previous article, the United States monitored 1000 people who recently traveled to China. All of them were assigned with a nurse and ordered to put themselves under quarantine for 2 weeks.
Based on a report from ABS-CBN News, the number of coronavirus cases in the US surge past 900. The Health experts claimed that the authorities are downplaying the COVID-19 outbreak.
According to a state-by-state count, the virus has caused the death of 28 and infected 910 people. The increasing number of victims are linked to the expansion in testing as a bulk and faulty test kits. The authorities weren’t able to detect the infected person right away.
According to the report, the testing capacity for COVID-19 delayed amid ‘inconclusive’ results from CDC test kits. These test kits are distributed to laboratories across the US.
Co-author of JAMA report Michelle Melo said the CDC is the only test kit authorized by the World Health Organization. The lab developed their own test kits based on the WHO’s.
“Adopting broader testing criteria and allowing use of a wider range of tests would have been helpful in identifying the first US cases and containing the spread…”
“Manufacturing problems like the one that arose with CDC’s test are always a risk, but the fact that CDC put all its eggs in that one basket made the manufacturing snafu highly consequential,” she wrote.
Based on the report, the author also claimed that the White House allegedly downplay the coronavirus concern. “The public messaging from Washington about the seriousness of the problem has been neither consistent nor accurate, and I worry it may have led Americans to take fewer steps to prevent community transmission than we should have,” she said.
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