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Only patients that are hospitalized and may have COVID-19 are to be tested for the virus in New York City, says the New York City Department of Health in a new memo.

They cite, in part, “a national shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), collection swabs.”

https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1241410371166109698

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This is a new constraint on testing I have not heard before.

This testing thing is _hard_, and nobody was ready to deal with all the implications of making it work on the ground.

CDC gets an F- on planning for testing.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed @POTUS for the city’s severe shortage of COVID-19 supplies - even though City Hall didn’t put in its first order for emergency protective gear until March 6,

https://twitter.com/maureendegnon/status/1241427529467977728

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Plenty of blame everywhere.