As government authorities confront a tower coronavirus epidemic in February that has now turn into a full - blown crisis , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched its exploitation of testing kits , according to governance emailsseen by the Wall Street Journal .
In special , some of the CDC ’s trial wrongly detected the new coronavirus in laboratory - class water system . The email , sent from a CDC official to state public - wellness - research laboratory officials , said some laboratory get " sporadic reactivity in the negative ascendency of one of the three assay constituent . "
But the CDC had already send those kit to tell public - health laboratories and had to retrieve them .
" It is unclear why quality control did not detect this issue before the kit were sent out to state , " the electronic mail noted .
As of Monday , the CDC did not have an explanation for the tidy sum of faulty tests . The organisation " has not yet determined if the job involves the assay design or pollution , " a CDC spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal . " It could have been either . "
The United States is quicklyapproaching 15,000 casesof COVID-19 , the disease triggered by the fresh coronavirus .
The CDC and the White House havefailed to adequately respondto the wellness crisis , fit in to experts .
" They ’ve just lose time they ca n’t make up . You ca n’t get back six weeks of cecity , " Jeremy Konyndyk , a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development who presided over the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration , told the Washington Post .
" To the extent that there ’s someone to blame here , the blame is on hapless , chaotic direction from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big characterization , " Konyndyk added .
The CDC say it has test 32,000 people , or 0.009 % of the population .
That per - capita ratefalls well behindthose in land like China , South Korea , and Italy .
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