A Warning About Coronavirus Tests

Demand is creating yet another backlog

U.S. coronavirus testing could fail again. As Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer report in The Atlantic, the U.S. could be in a bad spot yet again when it comes to testing capacity. The duo write:

The American testing supply chain is stretched to the limit, and the ongoing outbreak in the South and West could overwhelm it, according to epidemiologists and testing-company executives. While the country’s laboratories have added tremendous capacity in the past few months — the U.S…