Dr. Marc Siegel: Why COVID is still defeating us

There is a reason the United States leads the world in COVID, with 42 million out of the world’s 219 million cases and with 675,000 of the world’s 4.5 million reported deaths.

The politics of fear and divisiveness has continued to amplify the public distrust. 

On a deep level, we haven’t learned from our mistakes. The U.S. has performed 615 million COVID tests since the beginning of the pandemic, top in the world, but too many of these tests haven’t been used strategically to stop spread – too many have been accompanied by a delay in results being delivered to a patient who has already spread the virus by the time they know they have it.