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We have just a few weeks to plan for our best and possibly only way to stop this pandemic before it destroys our economy and health care system.

What-if questions can torment a doctor making coronavirus retest decisions: What if a patient’s initial negative test was a false negative, and he or she needs a second test? What if they don’t need it, and a retest would use up a scarce test kit and treatments that other patients need?

Abbott will deliver 50,000 COVID-19 tests per day to healthcare workers, starting Wednesday, using its modified ID NOW testing process, it said. Bringing rapid coronavirus testing capacity to the medical front lines is crucial in the battle to flatten the rising death and infection curve worldwide.

Gilead has asked the Food and Drug Administration to rescind a special regulatory status for its experimental coronavirus drug, but not before stirring up a controversy that had critics accusing the company of manipulating a law designed to spur research into therapies for rare diseases.

Even as the business climate remains deeply unpredictable, supply chain leaders should act now to plot their comebacks.