Acute shortages of supplies to safely diagnose and treat patients with COVID-19 has crippled the United States’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the importance of widespread and comprehensive testing for COVID-19, a joint statement issued two weeks ago by state health authorities and public health laboratories warned of a “widescale shortage of laboratory supplies and reagents” and urged health professionals to limit testing “until sufficient testing supplies and capacity become more widely available.”
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