Flawed coronavirus test strategy contributed to US spread: experts

Wed, Mar 11, 2020 - 6:57 AM

[WASHINGTON] Faulty test kits for the novel coronavirus coupled with a diagnostic strategy that initially targeted too few people allowed the disease to spread beyond US authorities' ability to detect it, health experts have said.

Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

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