Critics say that the US had trouble estimating coronavirus cases during the early weeks of the pandemic .
South Korea 's Drive-Through Testing For Coronavirus Is Fast — And Free , NPR , March 13 , 2020 South Korea also had a government-funded daily testing capacity of 15,000.Critics say that the US government has botched the approval and distribution of test kits , losing crucial time during the early weeks of the outbreak , with the result that the true number of cases in the United States was impossible to estimate with any reasonable accuracy .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States