Virus tests: Everyone in America should have one

The truth about the coronavirus is that we don't know who’s carrying it and who isn't. People without any symptoms test positive every day.

There is no cure or vaccine yet for COVID-19. At best, a vaccine is a year away.

The only way we now have of containing this virus is to test everybody in the country and then confine all the positive cases.

This strategy has been successfully used by Germany, Taiwan, Singapore and most significantly South Korea.

Is this truth hiding in plain sight from our country's top leadership on both sides of the aisle? If it isn't, then why have they not appropriated massive funds to incentivize our country's medical technology industry to test all of us?

Industry is ramping up to produce more ventilators to aid those sickened. But ventilators do not stop the virus.

The brave medical professionals staffing hospitals will soon be overwhelmed. Social-distancing orders are not our best effort because the virus continues to spread.

Write to your senators and congressperson today and implore them to give America their best effort by accelerating the massive testing of every person.

This story was originally published April 2, 2020 at 9:19 AM with the headline "Virus tests: Everyone in America should have one."