Some American Cities May Need to Wait Weeks for a Virus ‘Test That Works’
- Washington State reports fatality, the first in the U.S.
- California counties near local-transmission case are helpless
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There’s little that communities can do to contain the rampant coronavirus if they can’t figure out where it is.
Concerns about identifying victims, already high after authorities up and down the West Coast announced four new cases on Friday, ratcheted up another notch on Saturday when Washington State reported a patient had died, the first in the U.S. In hopes of gaining control, some jurisdictions have begun developing their own alternative tests for the respiratory disease known as Covid-19.