Hampered by very limited testing: The U.S. currently has NO real idea how many coronavirus cases it already has..(Updated)

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Compare and contrast ...testing in other countries vs. the vast and populous United States, so far...:

(↓Screen-captured partial copy. 3/10/20 unaffiliated source article is linked below. No copyright claimed or assumed:)

Source article link (subscription may be required): "Coronavirus testing: how are the hardest-hit countries responding?"

Additional source (general link), where some of this info. was broadcast on 3/11/20. No affiliation:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

>>>3/12/20 update: (Video clip below:) If you did not (and if you care..), what you should have watched and listened to after the "president"'s oddball (..and ineffective) 3/11/20 Oval Office address:



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3/11/20 news/analysis report (link): "Trump’s Error-Laden ‘Foreign Virus’ Speech Spooks Investors"

3/12/20 news story (link): "Top US health official says coronavirus testing system is ‘failing,’ cases now confirmed in 44 states"


3/7/20 news/analysis article link, subscription may be required:
"Squandered time: How the Trump administration lost control of the coronavirus crisis"

3/11/20 article link: "We're behind the curve’: U.S. hospitals confront the challenges of large-scale coronavirus testing"

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3/11/20 news report (link):

"Tests indicate coronavirus can survive in the air"