What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?

Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by Retric on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:45AM (#23956692)

Local jurisdictions within a city should have little to no control over policies in a pandemic like this. Giving them that control rather than operating at a higher level is idiotic. China was relatively successful because they sacrificed the economy of Wuhan early, but acting even sooner could have completely contained the virus and prevented the pandemic.

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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by kd5bjo on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:08AM (#23957580)

But you have to use the power structures that were in place pre-epidemic, and lots of them stop at arbitrary boundaries where the modern cities don’t. In the US, health policy is generally handled at the state level, but you’ve got places like the DC metro area where the city effectively spans both Federal land and parts of two states.

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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by Retric on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:15AM (#23957629)

I am saying polices are the reason why some areas failed. Saying this is how things are done is justification for failing policies, but it doesn’t mean they actually work.

The CDC was specifically created because diseases need a nationwide response, the US simply failed.

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