U.S. missing data amid possible new wave of COVID-19: Bloomberg


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Wednesday, 13 Apr 2022

NEW YORK, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The rise of COVID-19 cases in some regions of the United States, just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect, reported Bloomberg on Sunday.

"Testing and viral sequencing are critical to responding quickly to new outbreaks of COVID. And yet, as the country tries to move on from the pandemic, demand for lab-based testing has declined and federal funding priorities have shifted," said the report.

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