<em>Social Distance</em>: Why Can’t I Get Tested?
The U.S. is lagging behind on testing and in the race to get a comprehensive picture of the pandemic. <em>The Atlantic</em>’s Alexis C. Madrigal helps explain why.
by Katherine Wells
Mar 21, 2020
4 minutes
By the middle of February, epidemiologists already suspected that the coronavirus was spreading quickly throughout the United States. But testing for the virus was so limited that no one knew where it might show up or how many people had already been infected.
On the latest episode of Social Distance, The Atlantic’s James Hamblin and Katherine Wells talk with staff writer Alexis C. Madrigal about why the U.S. is still so far behind much of the world on testing, which should be one of the first lines of defense during a pandemic.
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