What happened is, the Lobbyists (Pharmaceutical) said to the politicians, HEY, don't import, buy from us, we'll cut you in on the profits, contribute to your campaign, hookers, cocaine, the standard.
Politicians go, OK, kewl.
Korona happens, logistic challenges, they can't make the kits properly, can't deliver them, can't get them properly tested/ evaluated, Trump team <the politicians who were privy to the cut is now on deflection>
But who really dropped the ball, well, everyone really, but it's the corruption that introduced the most lag time, and it is this same corruption that got 80,000 people killed, 120,000 thousand more to come.
USA possibly second only to Jpn has the strongest chemicon in the world, everything needed to make testing kits exist, all the talent, the capital, the technology, the infrastructure. We're hung up on Corruption.
They'd have you believe testing kits are this complicated thing, they're not, Thailand banged them out in mere days, THAILAND, Think about it.
Some of y'all non-geography people might think, buh TP, Thailand make these high tech samsung fones, y'all thinking of South Korea.
Thailand/ Myanmar/ Laos/ Cambodia is like the South America of Eastern Asia.