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The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated – The Washington Post
Thai scientists deployed a coronavirus test within hours. The CDC took 46 days to roll out a working test as the virus spread.
The CDC would not roll out one that worked for 46 more days.
Inside the 15-acre campus of the CDC in northeast Atlanta, the senior scientists developing the coronavirus test were fighting and losing the battle against time.
The agency squandered weeks as it pursued a test design far more complicated than the WHO version and as its scientists wrestled with failures that regulators would later trace to a contaminated lab.
The Washington Post reviewed internal documents and interviewed more than 30…
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