COVID Test Results: F for US
March 12, 2020
A top official at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony S. Fauci, has told a congressional committee hearing that the nation’s testing system for the spreading coronavirus “is a failing, let’s admit it.” In a recent online exclusive for Issues, a population health expert went even further, giving the United States a failing grade for its across-the-board response to the newly declared pandemic, going on to list some critical actions—learned from what other countries have done—that the nation should take, from basic science to treatment and prevention.