Detractors of the US Government stated that the failure to approve and distribute test kits during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to estimate the real number of cases .
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