Why aren't there enough test kits for the entire country?

[Kyblue1]

[jmowreader]

1. (Insert picture of Donald Trump here)

[Make7]

2. How long do you think it takes to produce 330,000,000 test kits?

And how many of those can be processed per day in the labs?

China released the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus January 12th.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Simple answer. Because of the trumpepidemic virus going around. He doesn't want the ...

counts to go up, that's why he didn't want the cruise ships to dock, didn't want the counts going up.

Idiot (and a murderer possibly, in not allowing these sick persons off when they needed aid and help).

It wasn't their fault that the virus seems to thrive on enclosed environments (which a ship is), and thus, by keeping these people onboard longer than need be, they caused the spread even more so, onboard, possibly, by keeping totally healthy people to remain on board.

[EllieBC]

4. There was enough for Pink to have 2.

It seems to be very dependent on who you are if there is a test available or not.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. What Make7 said.

While some other countries are doing a better job of testing, no one has enough kits for their entire population.

It's not as though this country is doing a uniquely bad job of dealing with this virus. A surprising number of others, even some you wouldn't expect, like Sweden have not done what they should have done to slow the spread.

[Igel]

6. Because few businesses or governments maintain production capacity

for unlikely worst cases.

We don't have the ability to produce that many that fast. Government's not going to maintain that kind of infrastructure for each and every worst case that could be posited. Businesses certainly won't.