| Stuart (2020) reported the United States initial over-reliance on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration was to block private testing. Bloomberg details how the feds failed to take advantage of the private sector. Singer (2020) reported what Jeffrey A. Singer, general surgeon described the chaos and disorganization that characterized the Corona Virus testing in United States due to bureaucracy. He explained that rigid federal regulatory regime fails to make use of the innovation, flexibility and speed of the private sector is largely to blame. Court (2020) reported that Washington missed an early opportunity to leverage the resources of the private sector. Instead, health authorities were left with a diagnostic tool developed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention that ran into weeks of problems, hobbling efforts to track and control the virus at a time when it might have been contained. Park (2020) reported that after the government initially limiting testing to one provided by the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration allowed certified labs, including commercial lab testing companies, to develop and distribute COVID-19 tests on Feb. 29. Ortega et al. (2020) reported weeks long coronavirus testing delay that could have been avoided had the federal agencies fully enacted their own plan to ramp up testing during a national health crisis. Like, the CDC in February releasing a flawed test which took weeks to rectify, failed to use the big commercial labs, and private labs were prevented from conducting their own tests. | Over reliance on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | High handedness of Government Officials/Parastatals. | Rigid Governmental Control. |