The World Health Organization offers a Covid-19 test, and according to an article in Politico (03/06/2020), the United States has declined to use the WHO tests, leaving many communities without a way to get tested for coronavirus.
Why is this important?
The US government's incapacity to conduct widespread testing has slowed diagnoses, thereby creating chains of infections. Also, this has deprived epidemiologists of a map that could tell how far and how fast the virus is traveling and where the US should concentrate our efforts to slow it down.
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