The U.S. insisted on developing its own Coronavirus test, even though the WHO already had one that worked.

Then the U.S.’s test didn’t work. And now, it’s dangerously behind in proactively testing for an outbreak.https://t.co/xn8BiCC7LF

— ProPublica (@propublica) February 28, 2020

“The CDC and Vice President Mike Pence’s office, which is coordinating the government’s response to the virus, did not respond to questions for this story. It’s unclear who in the government originally made the decision to design a more complicated test, or to depart from the WHO guidance.”

This is like the story about the U.S. weather service in 1900 who didn’t believe the Cuban forecasters who predicted the storm would threaten Galveston because they were foreigners.