The sin of planned neglect

 

“Testing is your first fundamental step in a plan to keep infected people from susceptible people,” Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told me. But the federal government has failed to expand testing capacity in any meaningful way, he said."

"To allow the recovery to begin, the United States must implement the kind of strategy that other countries have used to defeat the coronavirus. It must test widely to find infected people; trace their contacts, who might themselves have been infected; and isolate that potentially infectious group from the rest of the susceptible population. Setting up this kind of infrastructure was one of the initial goals of the social-distancing measures that states and cities started in March."

Without comprehensive testing we are being used as solders in a war that puts every citizen at risk in an attempt to protect the economy   No one one knows who benefits because no one knows  and the economy suffers along with the living  blogger 

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Robinson Meyer  May 8, 2020 for theatlantic.com