, Columnist
Why the U.S. Still Can’t Do Enough Coronavirus Testing
The country continues to suffer from a combination of government hubris, incompetence and bureaucratic rigidity.
Too little, too late.
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In late January, soon after a laboratory in Shanghai published the genome sequence of the coronavirus — and around the time Wuhan, China, went into lockdown — a scientist named Benjamin Pinsky began working on a test to identify people who were infected with the virus.