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  1. Giorgia Guglielmi

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The United States leads the world in COVID-19 deaths but lags behind many countries — both large and small — in testing capacity. That could soon change.

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Nature 585, 496-498 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02661-2

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