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A California coronavirus patient had to wait days to be tested because of restrictive federal criteria, despite doctors' suggestions.

Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:47 AM EST

Doctors at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center considered the novel pathogen a possible diagnosis when the person was first admitted on Feb. 19.

But the federal agency that conducts the testing did not administer the test until days later because the case did not fit the agency’s narrow testing criteria, university officials said in a letter to the campus community late Wednesday.

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