US health
official says coronavirus testing system is
'failing'
The US states hit the
hardest by the coronavirus outbreak are struggling
to make testing for the virus widely available.
By Al Jazeera
March 12,
2020 "Information
Clearing House" - The top United States
official on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, said
on Thursday that people could not get tests for the
deadly
coronavirus easily and the US testing system is
not meeting the country's needs.
"The system is not really
geared to what we need right now ... That is a
failing. Let's admit it," Fauci told a House panel.
"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're not."