White House Outbreak Is Not a Failure of Testing

Guarding against Covid-19 requires a layered defense

Robert Roy Britt
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readOct 6, 2020

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The Covid-19 tests that involve shoving a swab up the nose, so-called PCR tests, are not only uncomfortable but involve a frustrating lag for lab work to provide results. At the White House, where things move fast and lots of people come and go, there was a great need for a much quicker…

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Robert Roy Britt
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB