The Women’s Health and Wellness Podcast

Botched Coronavirus Test Kits in USA

There is still a massive shortage of testing kits in the US. Only 6,600 tests for the novel Coronavirus have been done in the US despite the government’s promises that millions of tests would be available by now March 10, 2020. The CDC botched the testing kits for SARS-CoV-2, the novel Coronavirus. 🦠 COVID-19 started spreading in the US before the government implemented travel restrictions. The lack of proper testing kits hindered the ability to track the outbreak in the US.

The Coronavirus Nobody Mentions

In 2004 there was an outbreak of SARS Coronavirus that infected nine people and one woman died. The virus 🦠 escaped from a government lab in Beijing in 2004. Nine people were infected and a woman died because a Chinese government lab did not have proper protocols to keep the virus contained. In 2015 the Chinese government opened a level 4 bio safety laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It’s an interesting coincidence that there is a level 4 bio safety lab in Wuhan China and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) started in Wuhan China. I believe that the Chinese government knows the virus escaped from a lab but they don’t want to take responsibility for their negligence. They were hoping it would just go away and it didn’t. I hope they were close to discovering a vaccine and an effective treatment for this Coronavirus because it is now a pandemic. Over 100,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths as of early March 2020. This is truly a public health emergency of international concern. 🦠 😟

Coronavirus Women’s Health COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2

Introducing my new podcast! Coronavirus in women vs men. What you should know about the novel Coronavirus. The image art for this episode is a scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 in yellow among human cells in pink. Color was added to the image to better show the virus and its environment. Image credit: NIAID-RML