WHY is it taking so darned long?
Why?
What the heck?
Antibiotics or other preventative medicine has to be formulated and approved.
Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet overnight.
It's the government. Lots of chiefs, not many Indians. It's moving lightning fast by its own standards. Bureaucratic behavior, turf protection, self-congratulatory crap.
The government track record for truth and accuracy is as bad as the press. You can pretty much count on anything they say as misleading at best, and not unlikely false.
You are so ignorant. The ability to test is governed by first knowing the virus. Then a test has to be developed thats accurate. The first ones were inadequate. Then you need capacity. Public health depts lack capacity. Thats why Trump brought in the private sector. Capacity is now there