Journalists in the US documented that the country still had limited testing kits during the coronavirus pandemic .
As of March 14 , all 50 states were able to perform tests , with a doctor 's approval , either from the CDC or from commercial labs in a state , but journalists have documented that the number of available test kits remained very limited , '' The 4 Key Reasons the U.S. Is So Behind on Coronavirus Testing '' , Atlantic Monthly , March 15 , 2020 which means that the true number of people currently infected with the virus is impossible to estimate with any reasonable accuracy .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States