BATTLE FOR WORLD | March 21, 2020: Is it that the United States government has put too much energy into sanctioning countries, foreign policy trouble-making, warfare, political infighting, etc. to such extent where it has drained and impaired the thinking faculties and cohesion workings of its own government where it cannot properly handle emergencies to help the American people? (BattleForWorld: My elite source did say that the coronavirus is going to expose how bad the U.S. healthcare is, here.)

An article in The New Yorker highlights that the United States is having problems with coronavirus test kits:

"Academic labs like Jerome’s were not the only institutions to attempt to fill the void left by the C.D.C.’s faulty tests. Scott Becker is the C.E.O. of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, a nonprofit organization based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that represents and coordinates a hundred and fifty state, county, and city public-health laboratories. Scientists at the public-health labs, Becker told me, tend to be eager for action."

"But Becker’s network was set up to administer diagnostic tests, not produce them. “We figured out surge, we figured out all sorts of other components, but the assumption has always been that there would be a test,” he said."

"When the problems with its kits were first discovered, the C.D.C. told the labs not to proceed with any tests until new kits could be manufactured, but it refused to say when those would be ready. “You’re just thinking, any day it’s going to show up,” Becker said."

"The C.D.C. notified the F.D.A. about the reagent problems on February 10th. According to an agency official, the C.D.C. told the F.D.A. that the contractor who had manufactured the faulty test kits would soon have a new batch of reagents ready for a suite of enhanced quality-control measures. If the reagents worked, then testing at the public-health labs would be able to begin in a few days. By Friday, February 21st, however, Nancy Messonnier, at the C.D.C., told reporters that the problems with the test kits were still not resolved. “We are working with the F.D.A., who have oversight over us, under the E.U.A., on redoing some of the kits,” she said. “We obviously would not want to use anything but the most perfect possible kits, since we’re making determinations about whether people have COVID-19 or not.”"

Meanwhile in the country of Russia, which is always being sanctioned by the U.S. and blamed for U.S. election meddling, etc., is reporting that the Russian Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare has delivered test systems developed by the Vector research center so that over 100,000 tests for COVID-19, can be done in 13 states, including member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Iran, Mongolia, the DPRK. And that the delivery of test systems to other countries like Egypt, Serbia and Venezuela are being planned.

The press service in Russia also noted that the Russian test kits have helped detect first cases of the novel coronavirus in Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

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