You failed to answer.
Just what do you think could have been done to speed up the process?
Be specific.
This is a brand new emerging virus that wasn’t even typed until December.
It’s a stupid question. We are behind the curve on testing. Period.
You continue dodging the question. One more time.
Just what do you think could have been done to speed up the process?
Be specific.
Beyond identifying and resolving the glitch I ALREADY linked, the CDC procedures for testing were bungled on the first community spread, delaying any hope of effectively tracking it.
Because she had not been to China and had not been a contact of a known case, the agency said no.
Eventually, more than 10 days after she went into hospital, the CDC agreed she could be tested.
As usual, inform yourself:
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Who could now a days?
What does that have to do with having test kits available earlier?
With test kits in very limited supply they most certainly didn’t want to waste them on patients that didn’t show an elevated risk.
Now of course if they could just will millions of test kits into being with a wave of the hand they could test everyone in the country but then that’s only possible in very small, twisted minds.
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Yet other counties did. Leading from behind? MAGA
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No they didn’t, you’re just making things up.
China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week. SK had testing 65,000 by February 28th. As usual inform yourself.
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What is it you think you’ve proven here?
That’s not millions of test kits that appeared magically.
https://www.biotechniques.com/microbiology-virology/diagnosing-coronavirus-in-the-lab/
It took three weeks from the virus first being typed for the first test kits to be produced.
How many have been produced and distributed in the US?
Like I said, Inform yourself. Stop wasting my time.
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I’ve already covered that long ago. You’re wasting Our Time.
There is no “our” when it comes to you lol
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Let us know when you have something of substance to offer, it will be a refreshing change from the mindless bitching.
One would think having a scaled up testing capacity would have been advisable before we actually needed it… instead of scrambling after the fact.
Needing to ration a 100 kits like the CDC did is embarrassing.
Especially if you are going to be one of the “it’s a hoax” bots that is arguing we will easily contain it.
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They only had a month from identification to typing to the first tests being available in China.
They can’t make a test for a virus that has yet to be identified and typed.
As for ramping up production do you actually believe we have vaccine and test kit factories sitting idle just waiting for an outbreak so they can put all their idle workers to work?
The reason the flawed test kits went out was because of the rush to get them into production. When you rush such things bad things can and do happen.
How many test kits are now available in the US?
Not enough.
So the correct answer is, “You have no idea and didn’t bother looking”.
All you’ve offered here is mindless partisan bitching.
If they denied a test kit to someone who obviously needed it, there is not enough.
Keep up.
And it is CDC that determines who needs them. That’s why the woman was hospitalized for 10 days before being tested.
You have no legit criticisms here at all, just partisan whining and bitching.
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