Taken together, the CDC’s restrictions would limit how much testing would initially be done. Those constraints would be overshadowed, however, by a tragic failure. As I’ll detail later, when those tests finally shipped, they didn’t work. Instead, the entire country remained tethered to the CDC’s single lab for all of the nation’s testing, because it was the only place in the US that had a workable test. The CDC had prevented other labs from developing their own tests and now, its own kit was defective, and the CDC’s Atlanta lab was the only facility that could get the test to work. By March 1,
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