For all the "Blame the President Experts" on the problems attendant to the testing lag whose "understanding" is predicated upon the tweets and snarky comments of "know nothing" talking heads and the hysteria of people with sniffles demanding the government needlessly test them … this is a piece from the MIT Technology Review that explains the problem attendant to the development and deployment of CoVid-19 testing modalities.The problem is and has been the government regulations promulgated by the Bureaucracy through a delegation of legislative authority by Congress a/k/a "rulemaking". The President has taken steps to suspend and/or modify the regulations causing the impediment to the development and deployment of testing modalities … notwithstanding the fact that he is not a member of the Legislative Branch. It is a Legislative Branch and federal bureaucratic "rulemaking" problem. But, our Legislators are too busy bug-eyed-blaming everyone else for their lies, conspiracies and failings. My colleagues, above all else, should know and understand this. It requires nothing more than a sixth grade social studies understanding of government function and first year law school issue spotting.
As for China and South Korea, their tests are touted as 50% accurate. Those kind of results are insufficiently reliable for reasonable comparison and certainly don't warrant "bragging rights" … … or the "America Isn't First" shame spiral we're experiencing.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615323/why-the-cdc-botched-its-coronavirus-testing/?fbclid=IwAR3IfnTHffvR-HSo25I_NzYr2ec_7ec721ghlm_5pnV3M7bBVOQ0wx7h6Mo