Where are the test kits?

ROXTXIA · Apr 29, 2020

NewRoxFan said: ↑

See, when you have no qualms about lying... anything is possible...

https://time.com/5828843/trump-coronavirus-testing-giroir/
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You know how it works, right?

"You said your people are in Hawaii and you won't believe what they have found. When will you show your evidence to the world that Barack Obama was not born in the United States?"
"Very soon."

"You say 5,000,000 Covid-19 tests per day will be conducted. Meanwhile, thousands are dying or hospitalized. When is the mass testing you mention going to happen?"
"Very soon."

NewRoxFan · May 1, 2020

Fact check: Trump says the U.S. ready to contain COVID-19 with contact tracing. Experts disagree.
Doctors says preparedness varies by city and state — many of which are facing budget crises — and a patchwork approach won't yield nationwide success.

President Donald Trump and members of his administration, who are eager to have parts of the economy restarted, have insisted that a robust contact tracing program to contain future outbreaks of the coronavirus is in place — even as public health experts warn the system is flawed and states are still largely unprepared. "Our blueprint describes how states should unlock their full capacity, expand the number of testing platforms, establish monitoring systems to detect local outbreaks, and conduct contact tracing. We have it all," Trump said on April 27. “We’ve gotten good at tracing,” he claimed days earlier, during a news briefing on April 23. In the same briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said he was confident in the country's plan to isolate people who test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and trace all their contacts so that those people can be tested and isolated.
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Contact tracing, the time consuming process of tracking down the associates of people who test positive for viral contagions, is seen as key to a safe reopening. But with some states moving to roll back lockdown restrictions absent a vaccine or a clear-cut treatment for the disease that has killed more than 60,000 in the United States, a number of public health experts have said Trump is painting an overly rosy picture, and that the country's underfunded patchwork of contact tracing systems isn't ready to handle the challenge of a pandemic. “We don’t have the scale that we need — we don’t have even close to the scale we need,” Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told NBC News. She was one of the lead authors on a study that found, in estimate, the nation will need at least 100,000 contact tracers and $3.6 billion in funding to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two former federal public health officials — Andy Slavitt, who oversaw Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama administration, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who headed up the Food and Drug Administration under Trump — have called on Congress to allocate $12 billion that states could use to hire up to 180,000 contact tracers as part of a larger, $46 billion public health investment proposal. Dr. Tom Frieden, a former head of the CDC, has estimated the country needs 300,000 contact tracers. “This is the major tool we have to control the spread — it’s what allows us to open up safely,” Watson said. Without it, she said, big surges are likely. “It’s possible that because of that, we’ll have to go back under stay-at-home orders,” she said.
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Only North Dakota currently has enough contact tracers to meet the state’s need, according to NPR's analysis. “It’s not rocket science to do it on an individual basis, the problem is the scale. Yesterday, we tested 4,681 people who were positive,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his Thursday news briefing. “How do you now communicate with 4,681 people, trace back all the people they’ve been in contact with over the last 14 days — close contact — and contact those people? That is an overwhelming scale to an operation that has never existed before.”
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...rump-says-u-s-ready-contain-covid-19-n1195621

NewRoxFan · May 5, 2020

trump still doesn't understand the concept of "per capita". The US is 44th in tests per million. Embarrassing!

NewRoxFan · May 7, 2020

A way more detailed analysis of where the U.S. is in testing (by state), so hard to provide a short summary, better to see the linked article...

U.S. Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short. How's Your State Doing?

The Trump administration said on April 27 that the U.S. will soon have enough capacity to conduct double the current amount of testing for active infections. The country has done nearly 248,000 tests daily on average in the past seven days, according to the nonprofit COVID Tracking Project. Doubling that would mean doing about 496,000 a day. Will that be enough? What benchmark should states try to hit? One prominent research group, Harvard's Global Health Institute, proposes that the U.S. should be doing more than 900,000 tests per day as a country. This projection, released Thursday, is a big jump from its earlier projection of testing need, which had been between 500,000 and 600,000 daily.
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What is apparent from the data we present below is that many states are far from both the Harvard estimates and the 10% positive benchmark. Just nine states are near or have exceeded the testing minimums estimated by Harvard; they are mostly larger, less populous states: Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. Several states with large outbreaks — New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, among others — are very far from the minimum testing target. Some states that are already relaxing their social distancing restrictions, such as Georgia, Texas and Colorado, are far from the target too.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health...sting-still-falls-short-hows-your-state-doing

conquistador#11 · May 7, 2020

Obama stole them all! Probably trying to convert them into a basketball goal.

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