Anxiety and confusion over the availability and criteria for testing were dominant themes Thursday as the nation continued to grapple with the pandemic. "We are being crippled by our department of public health and the CDC on our ability to combat this pandemic." Forman said her association estimates the nation's public labs could run up to 10,000 tests a day. Chan School of Public Health. She described the effort to get tests to public labs as "a bit delayed" but also blamed commercial labs, saying they were "really slow to take this on and scale up."

Source: CNN March 13, 2020 02:48 UTC