Mar 19, 2020
10 min read
The Science Behind Coronavirus Testing, and Where the U.S. Went Wrong
America was never prepared for this
As has been widely reported, a major bottleneck in addressing the novel coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is the extremely limited testing capacity. While South Korea has tested over a quarter million people, the U.S. has performed only 33,000 tests to date*, just three times South Korea’s…
