We don’t HAVE a swab test for THIS coronavirus yet. This isn’t the flu or strep. Or the SARS from the early 2000’s.
Scientists know there is NO swab test for this thing right now. Much less mass produced already and distributed to airports. The swabs themselves would be biohazards and the workers doing the test would need to suit up to do the tests.
All we have is a blood test.
That needs a BL3 lab (minimum) to even happen, because this is SO contagious.
We’re only testing, via thermal imaging, at 25 airports. How many airports do we have now?
Do you see any airport workers, in this country, in full clean suit garb doing swab tests (or anything other than holding up the thermal temp handheld). BTW, this is transmitted via touch. So those thermal handheld thermometers that are touching everyone’s forehead? Likely spreading it too.
Thermal imagining is USELESS for this.
BTW, this is transmitted via touch. So those thermal handheld thermometers that are touching everyone’s forehead? Likely spreading it too.
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Good point
> “We don’t HAVE a swab test for THIS coronavirus yet.”
Wrong.
Screen tech doesn’t confirm, it detects possible cases.
Lab tests confirm.
If there is a positive detection from the screen tech, that person is detained.
Not all that fail a screen are infected with coronavirus.
The lab test sorts them out.
If a traveler has the coronavirus, the screen tech will cause them to be detained. A lab test will confirm the type pf virus. There is a legit criticism of slow lab confirmations as those detained who are without coronavirus are inconvenienced.
Thermal imaging does not touch the traveler. It is a thermal scanner. It is only one detector. It is useful to detect thermal aberrations. If an infected person is asymptomatic, other screen tech will flag them.
Yes, swab testing is now in effect in China, India, Russia and in the US and is being deployed worldwide.
The President is getting good information and is taking appropriate measures of response.
It is not necessary to shut down the world in response to this virus.
But hysteria if food for unethical and unprincipled journalists and commentators. it gives them the drama they need to generate headlines. They blow it out of proportion. And it is apparent you have fallen prey to their designs.