Will someone please explain at length....clearly and forcefully.... to the President and Vice-President of the United States Of America, why Testing is something they need to support verbally and financially, much more than they are doing now..... and that even though opportunities have been lost, it is still vitally important in multiple ways. I realize this may accomplish nothing (or worse than nothing, considering that the President seems to enjoy having the power to hinder many of us from getting tests) but I think it's important that it be tried.

In the meantime, here is a good article (what I've read of it, it is very long) as to how things have gone awry in the US:

The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged
From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller
April 4, 2020

[washingtonpost.com]