A Top Health Official Said The US Is “Failing” At Testing For The Coronavirus

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A Top Health Official Said The US Is “Failing” At Testing For The Coronavirus

“It is a failing. Let’s admit it," said Anthony Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984.

 

 

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The US health system is "failing" at providing adequate testing for the coronavirus as the outbreak begins to grip the country, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Congress on Thursday.

“It is a failing. Let’s admit it," Fauci, a top-ranking member of the White House's Coronavirus Task Force, told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during a hearing on US coronavirus preparedness and response.

 

"The system does not — is not really geared to what we need right now," said Fauci. When it comes to testing, "the idea of anybody getting it, easily, the way people in other countries are doing it — we’re not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. But we are not."

 

Fauci's blunt comments come on the heels of the World Health Organization declaring the outbreak a pandemic, where more than 127,00 people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, most of them in China. But while China has seen a drop in new cases after implementing extreme restrictions on travel and other aspects of public life, a handful of other countries, including the US, are seeing their numbers surge.

 

So far, more than 1,300 people are known to be infected in the US and at least 38 people have died. But public health experts have warned hundreds to thousands more could already be infected — undetected due to a shortfall in testing that has drastically hampered an aggressive response to the virus's spread nationwide.

 

The testing problems began with an initial distribution of faulty tests last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to state officials, combined with narrow criteria for who could be tested.

 

A BuzzFeed News review of testing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia found a big discrepancy between testing conducted so far and the numbers of available tests promised by the Trump administration. And even when people have been approved to get tested, they've still faced obstacles in getting the test administered and then have had to wait days for the results.

 

Current estimates peg the total number of US tests conducted at fewer than 9,000 tests to date. By contrast, South Korea is now reportedly testing up to 20,000 people a day for the virus.

 

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Kerala (India) Traces, Isolates US Couple Who Fled Alappuzha Hospital to Avoid Coronavirus Test

The couple, US citizens who live in London, reached Kochi on March 9 and stayed at a resort in Varkala.

A couple from the United States who had symptoms linked to coronavirus were traced to Kochi international airport and put under isolation after they fled the Alappuzha Medical College.

 

ewww thats very bad,,do they want to spread coronavirus in 1 billion population country too ??

 

Huge Border attach with china.. but still presently India hardly facing any corona spread,,,comparing countries far most frm china italy,iran or UK are facing

 

 

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after some search i found some thing.. why these country have so much death even they r far away frm china...

not proper kits/lab facility to detect/prevent spreading corona

 

To fight coronavirus, India gets requests from Maldives, Afghanistan and Iran

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Update - Ministry of external affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said India received request for assistance amid coronavirus. Kumar added that the requests came from Bhutan, Maldives, Iran and Italy. Meanwhile, Health Ministry said India has one lakh kits for testing corona

 

Iran Didn’t Have Capacity To Test Stranded Indians, So India Flew In Equipment, Scientists To Set Up Lab In Iran
most of them students or pilgrims. 

Apart from the Chinese nationals, the foreigners in the Chhawla camp are from Bangladesh (23), Myanmar (2), Maldives (2), Madagascar (1), South Africa (1) and United States (1). These people were evacuated on an Indian Air Force plane.

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