HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Coronavirus, Labcorp, Gilead Sciences

• School: UCLA
• Department: Health Policy and Management
• Course: HLT POL 100
• Professor: Marcy Boroff

Document Summary

We hadn"t seen my two 20-something children in months. They"d spent the lockdown in brooklyn; one of them most likely had the disease in late march, before testing was widely available. My mother had died of covid-19 in may. So a few weeks ago, i rented a cute house on the delaware shore. It had a screened-in front porch and a little cottage out back, in case someone needed to quarantine. Coronavirus testing in the united states has been bungled in every way imaginable. The latest fiasco is perhaps the most kafkaesque: tests are now widely available in many places, but results are often taking so long to come back that it is more or less pointless to get tested. If it takes up to two weeks to get results, we can"t detect brewing outbreaks and respond with targeted shutdowns.