In WA state, a healthcare testing business received government funding to test sample people with the ordinary flu. They collected about 11,000 samples.
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With the new virus, on their own, they went back and tested those samples for COVID-19. They found nealy a hundred actually had COVID-19.
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They told the CDC.
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They were informed that those test results were private and that they could not legally tell the patients or even health authorities that they had the virus.
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The governor, did nothing, the feds, did nothing. Now it’s too late. They have either recovered, died or passed it on.
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Evidently, now that there is a “national emergency” they could disclose.
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The UW started a driveby testing program first. Until they were informed that they could only test healthcare workers.
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In the future, laws need to change.
In WA state, a healthcare testing business received government funding to test sample people with the ordinary flu. They collected about 11,000 samples.
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With the new virus, on their own, they went back and tested those samples for COVID-19. They found nealy a hundred actually had COVID-19.
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They told the CDC.
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They were informed that those test results were private and that they could not legally tell the patients or even health authorities that they had the virus.
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Got a link to the source of that “information”?