The coronavirus has inflicted new stress on a system already too unequal to function
Coronavirus testing has been a debacle in the U.S. Photo: Kena Betancur/Getty Images All 58 members of the Utah Jazz have been tested for the novel coronavirus. Their fans haven’t been quite so lucky. For the average American with a fever and cough, coronavirus tests are elusive. “The system is not really geared to what we need right now … That is a failing. Let’s admit it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said on Thursday.
But ignorance can be a comfortable state. The inadequacies of our health-care system and the absence of basic labor protections for millions have been problems for decades. The risks they pose are obvious, at least to those most harmed by them. Politicians, meanwhile, have either rejected solutions outright, as in the case of the GOP, or offered inconsistent relief, as in the case of the Democratic Party.
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