Government
Why Aren’t Cities Widely Testing for Coronavirus?
Public health experts warn local efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 require expanding the testing of residents. In the U.S., cities are falling short.
On March 1, on a return flight to her home in Washington, D.C., after a five-day work trip in Bangkok, Maggie McDow came down with something.
The symptoms — aches and fatigue, tightness in her chest — come and go. “One minute I think I’m getting better and the next I’m having trouble breathing and can barely lift my head off the pillow,” McDow wrote in an email on Saturday from her home in D.C.’s Forest Hills neighborhood, where she has been on self-imposed quarantine since her return. “I don’t know if this is Covid-19, but it [is] definitely different [than] anything I’ve had before.”