Frustration over lack of access to coronavirus testing boiled over Tuesday as Trump administration officials sought to reassure skeptical lawmakers the nation will have the capacity for 1 million tests within days.
Now you can’t blame Trump for this…this screw up falls directly on CDC IMO.
I chalk this up to unreasonable expectations. It’s a problem of scale and the CDC has limited production capabilities.
Understand fear and frustration but we’ve sent much of our industrial production to China over the last thirty years including an alarming amount of our Bio/Medical/Pharmaceutical production.
Review my thread from a few days ago on the national security reasons for bringing industrial jobs back to the US. This is a perfect example of where that critical industrial capacity is lacking.
This is all magnified by the fact the virus wasn’t even identified and typed until January. We had test kits in production within three weeks but with limited capacity there’s only so many that can be produced quickly.
Might help if you understood what he said, which wasn’t that summer heat would kill the virus but that transmission rates would fall as people spend less time couped up indoors.