📊 Daily Data Brief: July 11, 2020, 01:12 GMT (❗️July 08, 2020, 12:16 GMT) Cumulative case: 12,616,579 (+635,213) cumulative cases Active cases: 4,727,180 (+219,017) (this is the number of currently infected patients) Total Deaths: 562,039 (+14,714)
Some countries are doing it. The US isn't: "In fairness, the choice of the CDC and FDA to mandate inefficient testing is not motivated by malice. They are keenly aware of the danger of trying to fight an epidemic with unreliable testing and they are simply trying to do their job and promote public welfare. Test scarcity is simply an unintended and perhaps unexamined consequence of their choices. Now is a great time to change this and save lives."
Weren't CDC procedures also a reason why test development was delayed in the US earlier this year?
On the slow cycle times and bottlenecks of testing: @DReinertsen has been writing about sample pooling. See his Twitter account or these articles:
http://reinertsenassociates.com/sample-pooling-an-opportunity-for-a-40x-improvement-in-covid-19-testing/
http://reinertsenassociates.com/covid-19-testing-scarcity-a-self-inflicted-wound/
Some countries are doing it. The US isn't: "In fairness, the choice of the CDC and FDA to mandate inefficient testing is not motivated by malice. They are keenly aware of the danger of trying to fight an epidemic with unreliable testing and they are simply trying to do their job and promote public welfare. Test scarcity is simply an unintended and perhaps unexamined consequence of their choices. Now is a great time to change this and save lives."
Weren't CDC procedures also a reason why test development was delayed in the US earlier this year?