> “It tells you, you don’t know who’s at risk. You don’t know what you need to do to contain the virus if you don’t actually have the details or facts,” said Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of Health and Human Services.

Plans to reopen states are conditioned on testing, but how long --and will we ever-- have enough testing data (among the general population, not just those showing symptoms) to make the informed decision?

If we can't get the cotton swabs, the reagents, with the ability to test nationwide at scale, health policy experts will not be positioned to green light re-opening.