CDC director Robert Redfield defended the agency, but health experts say the outbreak could have been slowed if it was caught earlier
in January. The CDC and the Trump administration opted against using a test from the World Health Organization or other countries, like South Korea, that already had testing in place, and instead used a CDC-created one, which was then delayed due to contamination issues. The CDC also only allowed people who had recently returned from China or close contacts of those who had to get tested until late February, meaning likely cases of community spread could not get tested.
Public health experts pushed back on that idea. Instead of waiting for the limited number of cases of community spread “to replicate themselves until they are the haystack,” William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the, officials could have started spotting cases and conducting contact tracing to reduce the spread.
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