Emails and interviews show that after the weeks of C.D.C. rejections, researchers in Seattle decided to defy regulators and test anyway. They ended up finding and reporting the first case of community-transmission in the region.https://t.co/mlEjBJl96Q pic.twitter.com/h6cY9KmJgQ— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 11, 2020
“We felt like we were sitting, waiting for the pandemic to emerge. We could help. We couldn’t do anything.”https://t.co/mlEjBJl96Q pic.twitter.com/6nlJbCxOCu— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 11, 2020
The decision not to tap the existing flu study for monitoring was just one in a series of missed chances by the federal government during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier.— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 11, 2020
Tonight, there are 973 cases in 37 states. https://t.co/mlEjBJl96Q pic.twitter.com/BnBMYVOimh
