No one in the
White House is suggesting that we sacrifice the elderly or the
vulnerable. Asked by a reporter “how many deaths are you willing to
accept?” to restore growth, Trump answered “none.” Rather, the goal is
to get this country to the same place as South Korea, which has
effectively contained the virus without quarantining tens of millions of
people. South Koreans did so by following a strategy of “Trace, Test
and Treat” — using mass testing to isolate the infected while allowing
healthy people to go about their lives. South Korea has been able to do
this because it was able to test early. We have not because we lost six
crucial weeks in ramping up testing thanks to the incompetence of the
Food and Drug Administration, which
refused
to allow private and academic advanced labs to develop coronavirus
tests. Only in March were FDA restrictions lifted and outside labs given
the green light to begin testing.
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