US labs buckle amid testing surge; world coronavirus cases top 15 million

Research centers over the U.S. are clasping under a flood of coronavirus tests, making long preparing defers that specialists state are undermining the pandemic reaction.
With the U.S. count of affirmed diseases at almost 4 million Wednesday and new cases flooding, the bottlenecks are making issues for laborers kept off the activity while anticipating results, nursing homes battling to keep the infection out and for the labs themselves as they manage a devastating outstanding task at hand.
A few labs are taking a long time to return COVID-19 outcomes, intensifying feelings of trepidation that individuals without manifestations could be spreading the infection in the event that they don't disconnect while they pause.
There's been this fixation on, 'What number of tests are we doing every day?' said Dr. Tom Frieden, previous executive of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The inquiry is what number of tests are being finished with results returning inside a day, where the individual tried is quickly confined and their contacts are instantly cautioned.

Frieden and other general wellbeing specialists have approached states to freely report testing turnaround times, considering it a fundamental measurement to gauge progress against the infection.