which is what they did in south korea where they had experienced both sars and mers, and say to all the pharmaceutical companies and everyone, you go get them, develop a bunch of tests and that didn't happen. >> exactly. when we brought these notes to experts at labs, we said who's the bad guy here, and they said the government should have been taking these to other places. it was a calamity that this one test didn't work out but the bigger thing is we didn't have a strategy that would have made this failure just one thing among, you know, a stronger response, and those weren't there waiting when this bad thing happened at the cdc lab. is the real catastrophe in all of this. >> a cdc employee familiar with the development of the test said it would be better to have u.s. and german tests available worldwide, and copping the test would not have been politically possible under donald trump.