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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by eric-hu on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:37AM (#22431924)
I'm doing my best to _try_ to understand why the CDC is operating as it has been, and why the test count is so low to date.

The CDC issued test kits this far have been faulty, and a charitable interpretation of their slow response time is that the CDC would prefer people are treated as unknowns rather than false negatives (infected thinking they're clean because they tested negative).

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Re:U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties by Intermernet on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:59AM (#22432007)
As an Australian, and trying to be non-partisan, it seems that there were a large number of funding cuts to the CDC, especially in the areas that are responsible for pandemic control.

I hope that this isn't the reason, but it may be worth looking into.

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