in the meantime, guess what the CDC’s Tedros is up to? yes, he’s saving Africa by making sure they have test kits, and writing articles sainting China - again:
Lancet - Feb 24
Scientists are sprinting to outpace the novel coronavirus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Soumya Swaminathan
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30420-7/fulltext
On Feb 3, 2020, the only African countries with laboratories that could test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were South Africa and Senegal. This scarce capacity was a major concern for a continent bracing for possible infections. Just a fortnight later, WHO had sent testing kits to 27 countries on the continent, which are already being used.3 By the end of this week, the number of countries able to detect COVID-19 is expected to have risen to 40. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has led training for these countries in Senegal, with further sessions scheduled for the week of Feb 24, 2020, in South Africa.3
Supposedly they were the same flawed kits that the CDC had started to disperse here.
And still we have 46 states that have NO test kits.
Maybe we should apply to be a member of the African Centres for Disease Control, they at least seem to be on the ball with this.