to address item #5
reposting from last night, general FYI:
Mike Pence, Mar 6:
tests:
“We’ve been able to provide tests to all the state jurisdictions and labs that have requested it and.. all state labs have the test...State labs can actually conduct CV tests themselves. Beyond that, between Mar 2nd and 5th, we’ve distributed more than 900K tests across the country, including 200K that would allow 75,000 individual patients to be tested..By Saturday another 200K tests will be shipped and by the weekend another million tests will be shipped around the country. With the expectation by the end of next week another 4MM tests will be shipped.”
“To meet future demand this week the President brought together the leading commercial labs in America and asked them to in effect partner with the US in developing tests for the American people.
And I’m proud to say that just in the last 24 hours.. two of America’s leading commercial laboratories have announced that tests will be available by Monday of this week. The reason that’s important, the reason that meets future demand is because the enormous capacity of these commercial labs.. are precisely how we will make cv tests avail for your local doctor, available to your pharmacy and broadly available to the American public.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qyu1XG-wnw
1,721 posted on 3/7/2020, 8:20:41 PM by blueplum
Yikes.
We’ll see how that one ages.
Yet the CDC still has strident requirements for who can be tested.
Many in CA who were on the first infected cruise still cannot get a test if they have mild symptoms or no symptoms. Same with those in WA with no known contact with a verified infected person.
Only those who show up at the hospital in bad shape get tested.