'This has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked,' Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC said.
because she did not meet the CDC criteria for testing, given that she did not appear to have had close contact with any known coronavirus patients and had not traveled to China, where the outbreak started.significantly broadened
On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar informed a congressional hearing that the CDC had modified its testing protocol for the labs who received that test, in such a way that they could test just for the coronavirus. "It's very important to us in identifying anyone who is an actual case," Khaldun said."Obviously, we want to identify any positive test as quickly as possible, so our public health system responds appropriately."
Azar, the HHS secretary, said on Friday that private labs will soon"be able to create their own test based on essentially the recipe that the CDC has used in their test kit," further expanding the country's testing capabilities.
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