[johnminter]

This article is irresponsible. The federal government has been forthcoming about the problem with one component in the test kit they released. They provided a work-around quickly and have updated the test protocol and are releasing updated test kits. At least where I sit in New York State cooperation between our Democratic Governor and the Federal Agencies has been a good example. New York can now produce test kits and are quickly ramping up to 1000 tests per day.

I would note that this was made possible by scientists with federal (and state) funding to obtain the structure of the virus quickly and that these results helped guide the development of test kits.