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The deadly coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks, and exposed a weak spot in the United States’ preparedness for a public health emergency. Experts say aggressive diagnostic testing is essential in order to learn where and how an epidemic spreads. But in the critical first weeks of the outbreak in the U.S., one problem after another prevented doctors, clinics, and labs around the country from testing enough people. Patients in America were being sent home as hospitals rationed their test supply, while other countries like South Korea found a way to test hundreds of thousands of people quickly. Now, the U.S. is months behind in understanding the true scope of the virus. Testing capacity is finally ramping up, but is it too late?

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  1. @PrinceKumar-cf7ek

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    🙏💐💐💐💐💐💐🙏👍🤗😇🥰

  2. @theyes647

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    “How our healthcare system is the best in the world”
    Shut up

  3. @TopperPenquin

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    They are testing so much because I believe that a lot of people have the virus it's just doesn't show itself.

    Even though they will still test positive.

    So in this way they have a better idea to adjust their SIGHTS on were the virus maybe or originated from.

    We might all have the virus that we just don't know it yet.

    What if The Dragon released this Virus years ago yet it lays dormant till activated by a frequency from your Mobile.

    That puts us all in the firing line.
    Kinda like holding a Butter Knife to our Throats.

  4. @lynolsen3821

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    The virus was here before January,as a matter of fact Fauci said in 2017, that a pandemic would hit us, coincidence?

  5. @williamhenry2408

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Finally I got cured of 4 years chronic lower respiratory disease, I'm now free ♥️♥️ ❤️ I appreciate Dr. Gbenga for his help.

  6. @derekjenkins6614

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    19Jan21 Scoreboard update on COVID19 deaths:

    #1 USA 408,089 — #6 Italy 82,554 — #83 Sth Korea 1,264 …. Nice work, USA. You win, again.

  7. @awokentruth333

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    https://youtu.be/YgOAaLmoa68
    Here ya go. Sorry its not in the script

  8. @NotAJosh

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    I work in heathcare in NYS and I have to get tested once a week

  9. @peterg.9393

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    "' We always talk about how our health care is the best in the world "AHAHHAHAHAHA

  10. @soumitrahalderversatilesin6919

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    CHINA ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A SUPER POWER ALL OVER THE WORLD, FOR THIS REASON HE SPREAD OUT THE VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS COVID19 IN OUR NATION'S. ALL THE INFORMATION OF COVID19 HE KNOWS FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT HE CAN'T INFORM TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT THE DANGEROUS VIRUS. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO CREATE VERY NASTY SITUATIONS IN NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA,TAIWAN,VIYETNM,PHILIPPINES, HONGKONG AND ALWAYS SHOWING HIS OWN POWER AND FEAR TO THE NEIGHBOURS, SO WE ARE REQUESTING TO ALL OTHER COUNTRIES TO TAKE STRONG ACTION TOGETHER AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PLEASE TO SAFE ALL NATIONS 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💝💝💙💙😥😥😥😥

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    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

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  12. @growup6104

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    By having many deaths the USA most likely had one of the biggest positive environmental impacts. Less resources used and less cars on the road. Just what everyone wanted years ago.

  13. @danbassman1760

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    We're not behind you sick "B". Anything you can read to make your money even when it's completely BS. Dosen't it bother you at all that people can't stand you? It would to me, mostly because I don't have sh*t for brains.

  14. @sagarparayouthcomputertrai9217

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    CHINA ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A SUPER POWER ALL OVER THE WORLD, FOR THIS REASON HE SPREAD OUT THE VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS COVID19 IN OUR NATION'S. ALL THE INFORMATION OF COVID19 HE KNOWS FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT HE CAN'T INFORM TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT THE DANGEROUS VIRUS. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO CREATE VERY NASTY SITUATIONS IN NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA,TAIWAN,VIYETNM,PHILIPPINES, HONGKONG AND ALWAYS SHOWING HIS OWN POWER AND FEAR TO THE NEIGHBOURS, SO WE ARE REQUESTING TO ALL OTHER COUNTRIES TO TAKE STRONG ACTION TOGETHER AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PLEASE TO SAFE ALL NATIONS 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💝💝💙💙😥😥😥😥

  15. @sagarparayouthcomputertrai9217

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    CHINA ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A SUPER POWER ALL OVER THE WORLD, FOR THIS REASON HE SPREAD OUT THE VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS COVID19 IN OUR NATION'S. ALL THE INFORMATION OF COVID19 HE KNOWS FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT HE CAN'T INFORM TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT THE DANGEROUS VIRUS. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO CREATE VERY NASTY SITUATIONS IN NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA,TAIWAN,VIYETNM,PHILIPPINES, HONGKONG AND ALWAYS SHOWING HIS OWN POWER AND FEAR TO THE NEIGHBOURS, SO WE ARE REQUESTING TO ALL OTHER COUNTRIES TO TAKE STRONG ACTION TOGETHER AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PLEASE TO SAFE ALL NATIONS 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💝💝💙💙😥😥😥😥

  16. @sagarparayouthcomputertrai9217

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    CHINA ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A SUPER POWER ALL OVER THE WORLD, FOR THIS REASON HE SPREAD OUT THE VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS COVID19 IN OUR NATION'S. ALL THE INFORMATION OF COVID19 HE KNOWS FROM THE BEGINNING, BUT HE CAN'T INFORM TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES ABOUT THE DANGEROUS VIRUS. HE ALWAYS WANTS TO CREATE VERY NASTY SITUATIONS IN NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA,TAIWAN,VIYETNM,PHILIPPINES, HONGKONG AND ALWAYS SHOWING HIS OWN POWER AND FEAR TO THE NEIGHBOURS, SO WE ARE REQUESTING TO ALL OTHER COUNTRIES TO TAKE STRONG ACTION TOGETHER AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PLEASE TO SAFE ALL NATIONS 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💝💝💙💙😥😥😥😥

  17. @mayleetan6518

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Within a week, Beijing has already tested 350,000 people

  18. @miguelamaya6246

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    YOU WANT TO TEST, GET YOUR OWN, BUT FROM WHERE?

  19. @miguelamaya6246

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    YOUR LEADER SAYS IT'S NOT HIS PROBLEM, BESIDES IT'S ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR?

  20. @michaeluscmktggroup4326

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    SOUTH KOREA COMPANY JUST DISCOVER MEDICINE CURE COVINA19 CALL "ATANAZABIR". AMAZING KOREAN PEOPLE !

  21. @gurbachansingh910

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    America is superpower bruh wait..

  22. @alvinelpasha8682

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    JUST DESTROY CHINA, AND EVERY THING LL B BACK TO NORMAL, 100 000 DEATH IN 5 MONTH ( And more and more )in ONE COUNTRY, SUPER POWER COUNTRY, PLUS THE COLLAPSE of the ECONOMY, IT'S NOT A JOKE ANYMORE….COME ON AMERICA…USE AND PROOF UR REAL SUPER POWER , JUST DESTROY CHINA..THE ATHEIST COUNTRY….there is no HEART in ATHEIST COUNTRY , DESTROY CHINA AND EVERYTHING LL B BACK TO NORMAL , DESTROY CHINA B 4 IT'S TOO LATE.

  23. @joefran619

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Probably most likely to get infected from the testing, People in their cars being tested by the tester wearing the same gloves over and over sorry, but that doesn't  make sense to me!

  24. @fashion3k-truestyleneverdi494

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Alarming numbers . Be safe and God Bless
    http://www.fashion3k.com

  25. @optimisticoutreach1236

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    As of Friday night, the WHO's official Twitter account still featured a tweet from Jan. 14 that stated: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."

  26. @leo.l.e3488

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    It is an outrageous that with all the advances, the knowledge and technologies in the medical fields we "already have at our disposable. For God sakes we even put a man on the moon. Yet we don't have tests available for individuals to get tested, to stop the spread of this vicious virus that is taking lives in the hundreds per day.

    Please, please, please I am asking nicely…
    How can this be?

    P.s. though I have a theory, as to why the government is so eager to open the economy and not assist in stopping this virus from killing people.

  27. @sad2379

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    You are now getting (average) 20,000 new cases EVERY DAY and (average) 1500 deaths EVERY DAY — Average per month 30 days = 45000 deaths/month – America M.A.G.A MAKE AMERICA a GRAVEYARD AGAIN! America you should be so proud of yourselves

  28. @mathildewesendonck7225

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    I‘m in Germany, and we are so lucky here. I work in hospital, and our employer provides the testing. We are being tested every 5 days, if we have symptoms we can also come in between. I just go there, ring a bell, then someone comes, checks my insurance card and does the test. Just takes five minutes, no appointment or anything, I never had to wait. And our health insurance pays for it. Our employer wants us to stay healthy, because we have paid sick leave for up to six weeks. And if we get sick and pass the virus on to our colleagues, he will have a problem.
    I like our system and don’t understand why some people in the US call it socialism

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  30. @CorekBleedingHollow

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Wtf does all this testing have to do with reopening the country?….

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    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

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    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

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  33. @quattro5413

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    How is the US behind in testing when we have tests exponentially greater in numbers than any other country in the world?

    Even if we throw out billions of tests a day, the science labs can only handle so many at a time, that the results would be backed up for months. Its not about how many tests we distribute; we need thousands of more labs, thousands of more lab workers, and millions of more testing apparatus, tools, equipment. The problem is inevitable because nobody in the world said in advanced (years ago) that we need to prepare to be able to complete millions of tests a day. It sounds great from an external perspective, sure we need more testing, but the amount of more testing that we need to make a difference is impossible. This is something that needed to be prepared years in advanced. So who is to blame for not being prepared years in advanced. Well nobody, because I never heard one person bring up the issue in history that we need to advance our science labs to be able to administer millions of tests daily. This is something that will take time. Tests are evolving rapidly and only time will tell.

  34. @dildorify

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    I don't think US ever had the best health care system in the world. They may have the most advanced cutting edge health care system in the world but that's an entirely different thing, isn't it.

  35. @alimurtaza6318

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Yeah usa spends most of it money on its military not education and health care
    That's cuz usa wanna fight the world and not make any peace I am not against usa I just wanted to say my opinion believe me I also love usa but sometimes it is bad in some areas

  36. @Jelly_andJam

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Even if you get a test it takes 10 days to get the results ???

  37. @nicktasteless360

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    this corona virus is beneficial, to all nations who didn't experience MERS or SARS. They can finally open their eyes and soon be prepared for future outbreaks.

  38. @joeschultz2

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    LOL! Trolls from Russia claiming US is not a first world country. Meanwhile, 25% of Russian homes don't have functioning running water.

  39. @DN-pj9ze

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    If you are not in medical field, you are not smart enough to wear a mask properly. And so the officials said that masks doesn't work.
    Remember that?

  40. @vornamenachname1069

    January 9, 2024 at 9:34 am

    Ironically, the US and South Korea had their first Corona cases on the same date (01/20/2020). While South Korea used tests developed and recommended by the WHO, in the US, the FDA just waited for the CDC to finish developing their own test instead of authorizing the WHO test which was already available at that time.

    The New York Times explains it quite well: "The C.D.C. gave little thought to adopting the test being used by the W.H.O. The C.D.C.’s test was working in its own lab — still processing samples from states — which gave agency officials confidence. Dr. Anne Schuchat, the agency’s principal deputy director, would later say that the C.D.C. did not think 'we needed somebody else’s test.' " https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html

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