The virus kit is really a misnomer and one of the means to tell someone who knows something from someone who does not. Here is the CDC protocol.
It is a cookbook for obtaining the sample and processing the sample. Many Labs can do this, thousands actually. So why the delay. Well we have moved from Federal roadblocks to State roadblocks. So called State Labs are turf protecting.
So let us not kid ourselves, Government is the problem, not the solution. And the kit issue was CDCs way of controlling but no people who have no clue are fixated on kits. It is process and not kits. A process which can be repeated all over the country if States would step aside.