California, Sacramento face coronavirus test shortage. Why the timing couldn’t be worse

California, Sacramento face coronavirus test shortage. Why the timing couldn’t be worse

“If you can’t test, then how can you do tracing and isolation” of infected people? said Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine disease prevention professor and epidemiologist. “Testing is the foundation on which the response is built. “When you inform Joe that sniffle he has is COVID-19 and he needs to stay home for two weeks, you prevent him from infecting five other people, and them infecting five others.”