Across the country, patients are reporting delays in getting their Covid-19 test results because of major supply shortages.
"The wheels have fallen off the wagon," said Susan Butler-Wu, an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine.Adriana Cardenas, a medical technologist processes test samples for the coronavirus at the AdventHealth Tampa labs on June 25, 2020 in Tampa, Florida.Across much of the U.S., concerned citizens are lining up to get tested for the coronavirus, only to wait a week or longer for their results to arrive.
With the country mired in its worst pandemic in a century, health experts are apoplectic about the length of the testing delays. In addition to the anxiety it causes patients, the lag time is disastrous for public health, because infected people aren't being quarantined in a timely fashion and it's impossible to retrace their steps to find others who have been exposed.
The inability for the U.S. to establish an efficient testing system, five months into the crisis, is one reason why numerous states continue to hit"The wheels have fallen off the wagon," said , an associate professor of clinical pathology at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine.A lot. At the highest level, demand for Covid-19 tests is outstripping supplies. The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests are considered the most accurate on the market but, like with all tests, labs across the country can't access them fast enough.
Butler-Wu, who has a clinical microbiology lab in Los Angeles, said there's huge pressure to "test, test, test" for the virus without a coherent strategy to ensure that clinical and commercial labs have sufficient supplies.a mixture that's used in chemical analysisfor their platforms and test kits.
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