The Kansas City Star just posted this story.
Testing for the novel coronavirus will be reduced in Johnson County, which has reached the point where the virus is spreading by community transmission, state officials said Wednesday.
Why are they reducing testing just when it seems testing would be most critically needed? Because they have to.
The county currently has the most presumed positive cases of COVID-19 in the state with 12. Because of this, and because of a limited supply of test kids, Kansas Secretary of Health and Education Lee Norman said, there will be a “fundamental change” in the public health approach there.
The county will still be able to track the number of cases in the county based on symptoms and hospitalizations, Norman said, but the state will shift its testing supply for use in counties that have not reached community transmission.
But don’t worry, tax cuts will more than make up for the lack of test kits.