COVID-19 & US healthcare system

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We may have passed the tipping point in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

"I think for Canada, the place we're really connected to is the United States," [Dr. David Fisman, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Toronto] said. While he has great respect for his public health colleagues in the U.S., "Some of the politics there really looks ... from this side of the border, like it might be interfering with their outbreak response."

He also points to technical problems the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has had with testing kits, that may have hampered their ability to test as thoroughly as we're doing in Canada, which, he said, "To my mind suggests they're probably missing a lot more cases than we are."

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