The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the critical role of diagnostics tools in public health responses to health security crises. But persistent gaps in abilities at the national- and sub-national level to adequately diagnose and enumerate infected individuals, identify contagious individuals, and describe changing trends in transmission and the pathogen itself have hindered health officials’ abilities to control the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. These challenges are not necessarily unique to the current pandemic and, absent specific plans to address them, will likely be encountered again in future emerging infectious disease events.

中文翻译：

---

美国的 SARS-CoV-2 测试挑战凸显了在下一次健康安全危机之前改善监测的必要性

COVID-19 大流行凸显了诊断工具在公共卫生应对卫生安全危机中的关键作用。但是，国家和次国家层面在充分诊断和枚举受感染个体、识别传染性个体以及描述传播和病原体本身变化趋势方面的能力持续存在差距，这阻碍了卫生官员控制严重急性传染病传播的能力。呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 病毒。这些挑战不一定是当前大流行所独有的，如果没有解决这些问题的具体计划，未来新发传染病事件中可能会再次遇到这些挑战。