Posted on 06/23/2022 2:01:08 AM PDT by Libloather
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is expanding monkeypox testing to commercial laboratories amid fears that the country is undercounting monkeypox cases because of insufficient testing.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it began shipping moneypox tests this week to five private testing companies: Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare.
The testing through these companies will begin in early July, HHS said.
“These commercial laboratories will dramatically expand testing capacity nationwide and make testing more convenient and accessible for patients and health care providers,” the department said.
Some public health experts have warned that the U.S. risks repeating the mistakes of the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, when there was not enough testing to detect how widely the virus was really spreading.
“Now the United States, once again, appears to be responding to a new health threat with an underpowered testing response,” Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University and Jay Varma of Cornell University wrote in a Washington Post op-ed this week.
There is already a network of public health labs across the country able to do monkeypox testing, but experts say that it will be easier for doctors to order tests from commercial laboratories where they have established relationships and can jump through fewer hoops, thereby encouraging more testing.
“All Americans should be concerned about monkeypox cases. Thankfully we have right now the tools to fight and treat cases in America,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “By dramatically expanding the number of testing locations throughout the country, we are making it possible for anyone who needs to be tested to do so.”
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*amid fears that peak hysteria will not be achieved.
Fixed.
Here we go folks, the show is about to begin.
Liberalism is a mental disorder and one of the symptoms is monkeypox.
have they found a test that gives false positives?
that is an essential part of a “pandemic”
Should only be feared by butt-pirates.
No.
Mandatory testing,
Mandatory face masks,
Mandatory gay sex...
The Democrats badly need a new pandemic in order to cheat on the midterm elections. People no longer fear the Covid pandemic. There are not enough cases of Monkey Pox right now to achieve pandemic status. This is an obvious attempt to increase the cases.
Midtermpox outbreak.
Shipping monkeypox tests...
I wonder who manufactured those, and if you test, say...a potato, does the test automatically come back positive for monkeypox...?
If what’s being called monkeypox is in fact CoupFlu vaxx related, more people than just gays need to worry about it.
Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare...
Just those outfits...
Also very interesting.
Rand Paul, this is dorth looking into, isn’t it...
Just wish there was a way to get rid of the regime today! They are making this country a 3rd world country before our very eyes! Can we wait until November! And will we be able to stop the RINOS and Uniparty if we take over the house and senate.
I’ve heard of CYA but this is getting ridiculous.
Begone!
Back across the river Styx with thee!
Perhaps Biden can announce this in a press conference with a monkey by his side. At least there’ll be some intelligence on the stage.
They need more heterosexual cases. This is shaping up to be another fag disease, like aids.
Well that monkey certainly rides a bike better than Joe...
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