I don’t know if you watched the video from a man in Wuhan, but one of the biggest problems they have are lack of test kits, and the ones they have they are using to test doctors.
It only makes sense.
I was thinking about it this morning in terms of fighting a war: Battles are won with tactics, Wars are won with logistics.
Getting the cities closed off and stopping the spread is the tactic. But the logistical effort of identifying to infected and dealing with them is what is being lost.
The rest of the world has the “warning” time to develop their plan to handle this logistically. You can bet we will centralize the infected and have to appropriate testing and treatment facilities prepared.
I guess all those table top exercises are paying off.