[ETCM]

Presumptive positive

CDC needs to get out of the way. As numbers increase, these states are not going to have time or resources to collect, process, document, ship and follow up on redundant samples for the CDC to verify. Why are we wasting resources on both ends and using twice the required number of tests? Does the CDC lab have nothing better to do than verify tests?

[LilFarmer]

You would think they could spare one person to update the website numbers.

The “presumptive positive” is a crazy thing. My son has friends that go to a private school and even though every school within 50 miles is closed, they were going to stay open. The reasoning was that presumptive meant it wasn’t a “real” case in the county. I guess parents gave them the what-for because they decided to close later.

[Thud]

We need a federal law stating that, if a state governor declares a particular state of emergency invoking this law, the state government and its local governments may ignore regulations of the Food & Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control, and the Environmental Protection Agency for one year from the date of the governor's proclamation.

"CDC needs to get out of the way. As numbers increase, these states are not going to have time or resources to collect, process, document, ship and follow up on redundant samples for the CDC to verify. Why are we wasting resources on both ends and using twice the required number of tests? Does the CDC lab have nothing better to do than verify tests?"