Why Is The USA So Far Behind in Covid-19 Testing?

David Mokotoff, MD
7 min readJul 3, 2020

Instead of being tenth in the world we should be first.

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I am a medical doctor. I am not an epidemiologist. However, I do know a bit about infectious diseases and science. I know that you cannot effectively identify and treat diseases unless you know their extent. Thus it has baffled me since the start of the pandemic why the US lags so far behind in testing it’s population for…

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David Mokotoff, MD

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