Some downtime was probably necessary because our multibillion dollar public health bureaucracy got caught with its pants down. This whole thing has been a real indictment of bureaucrats.
Brings into some question why governors are deciding questions of medical capacity in a state.
We have really been let down by CDC and FDA.
I have been stunned by poor response, especially since serious structural problems were uncovered by the H1N1 fiasco a decade ago. The CDC used to a Gold Standard for infectious disease response but they have been caught totally unprepared for this covid19 event
Absent an explainable tech limitation or road block( ie it took us years to even identify HIV virus) the lack of test capability at this point constitutes serious negligence on the part of CDC - whose bureaucratic empire builders clutch the control of testing capability with tight fists.
Will be interesting to see what CDC has been doing with the 8 billion or so it gets each year. Maintaining a rapid ramp up and deployment of testing capability for SARS type virus is one of its primary, if not primary, missions and it has failed miserably.
God help us if we need a vaccine.
Looking like we may have got control of this in time but CDC needs to be held accountable for their negligence