Posted on 02/29/2020 7:00:05 AM PST by cba123
Some states received test kits that were inconclusive or only partially accurate. Other states said they were hamstrung by testing criteria so narrow, it limited who they could screen for the new coronavirus.
For more than a month, officials throughout the country have been asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enable more widespread testing for the never-before-seen infection, as coronavirus cases around the globe rose past 82,000.
But technical difficulties reduced the number of laboratories in the U.S. with working test kits to only about a dozen, including CDC headquarters in Atlanta. That delayed results for suspected patients and frustrated public health authorities.
Things changed this week: Top federal health officials announced they had modified the testing protocol, expanded criteria for who could be tested and worked out the technical problems with the tests, positioning more state and local laboratories to finally have the ability to test for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. But, the officials acknowledged, the process was rocky.
(Please see link, for full story)
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The flu has killed far more people than the coronavirus and you don’t see daily FR threads dedicated to it.
Meet some other members of the chicken little brigade:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/business/coronavirus-business-travel-ban/index.html
Chicken Littles are on every continent, spreading faster than the virus itself....or maybe, just maybe, they know something....
cba123 wrote:
““We need to have testing as close to the population as possible,” he said. “We’re going to see what I call the popcorn effect, showing up here and there, because of return travelers. Now that the testing got expanded, I’m hoping and praying it’s just in time in the sense that the test kits will be there, up and ready, where there’s a need for more.”
(End of the story, from the link)
Apparently, we will see new results, this week?”
From the article:
“...Scott Becker, CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, which represents the 100 local and state public health laboratories qualified by the CDC to do this type of testing. ...”
That is who is quoted in your post; he’s got a vested interest....
I want whatever you’re smoking. Please tell us why this disease would suddenly just stop spreading and go away?
Its way more deadly than the flu and contagious .
Ask Iran , Korea, and Italy .
Italy closed down a large hospital and quarantined the staff and patients .
Wake up and stop the flu nonsense .
Because junior(ess) needs a job to pay off those 200K student loans spent on women/african american studies degrees...QUANTITY of gov. has increased, while the QUALITY has taken a nose-dive.
"I don't know what that goo is in that skinny glass thingy and stuff...but I DO know it's probably created by an evil white-hetro-male sexist/racist bigot AND it's causing globull warming!"
BTW, thanks for the job and stuff(gov.)Mom/Dad!...Orange Man Bad!...Bernie 2020!
Good news! Homeland Virus cops are coming to lock your and family up!
It is amazing how many so called conservatives want the Feds to take over our lives due to this so called emergency.
That type of bs is how we ended up with Homeland Security and TSA. They make air travel miserable 24/7, and probably have eliminated zero air tragedies.
If you want Homeland Virus or whatever to be able to quarantine you and your family:
You are an idiot and not a conservative.
Then, to Mass Quarantinofornias !!!.. Sanctuary States in rapid decline!!!.. Norm’s Revenge
Probably.
But since they have pretty much the same symptoms, in the absence of test kits, how would Aunt Maude's death be listed?
Flu or WuFlu?
We're all betting seasonal Flu. I hope we're right...
Convention attendance will mirror the Italian soccer attendance...
...with or without a quarantine!
Are you certain it wasn't sabotage?
It only takes one saboteur...
Calculate it using the number of people who have run the full course of the disease (recovered and dead) and report your honest results, please? 38.6%
Ground glass lung is a symptom of WuFlu, but not a definitive diagnosis.
Still, it's the way to bet at this point.
Every test has false positives and false negatives. These can cause many problems.
It wasn’t $15B a year so they sat on their hands like petulent children.
Perhaps the ones in charge of the tests were also the ones crying in the halls when Trump was elected?
Just a thought.
Speaking of which, have we heard of a single member of the CCP Polit bureau being sick or dying?
Why is that do you suppose?
That thought never even crossed my mind, not even once, nope not me...
Nope. Mine either.
Just like none of the midlevel people at any government agency would tolerate their superiors trying to ‘get bad orange man’.
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