COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts
Confirmed 18
Presumptive positive 105
Total 123
View case details, including county, sex, and exposure source, as of March 13, 2020:
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-cases-quarantine-and-monitoring#feedback
LA
Louisiana is shuttering K-12 schools across the state until April 13 and banning public gatherings of more than 250 people, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Friday, the most dramatic steps taken yet in the state to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.
CDC needs to get out of the way. As numbers increase, these states are not going to have time or resources to collect, process, document, ship and follow up on redundant samples for the CDC to verify. Why are we wasting resources on both ends and using twice the required number of tests? Does the CDC lab have nothing better to do than verify tests?