Posted on 03/29/2020 9:13:35 PM PDT by rintintin
It is generally accepted that widespread testing will be key to successful control of Covid-19. Identifying where the virus has (and has not) spread, who is infected, and who may be immune are all important. The tracing and isolation of infected and potentially infected individuals is essential if quarantine and containment efforts are to be targeted. Yet as ProPublica reports:
"The lack of testing continues to be a source of deep frustration across the country, with worried patients unable to find out whether they have the ordinary flu, the coronavirus or something else entirely. The availability of testing in regions that aren't hot spots still faces an array of bottlenecks, from shortages of cotton swabs to the capacity of the labs processing the tests."
Why isn't there more testing? And why haven't we been able to ensure testing occurs where necessary? Among other things, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) focused on the development of its own test and discouraged the development of alternatives by others. This turned out to be a particularly bad misstep because the CDC's test was not particularly accurate.
A new investigative report from USA Today paints an even more damning picture of a CDC that simultaneously sought to monopolize testing while deceiving state officials about its capacity, As a consequence, parallel efforts to develop and produce tests in private labs were set back, placing the United States well behind the curve of where we needed to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
So people are suffering COVID-style shortness of breath, fever, coughing, chest pains, but because they can still breathe and have been admitted to the hospital, they can't be tested.
This is because there is STILL a shortage of equipment for tests. Hopefully the Abbott Labs quick-test, just approved by FDA, will overcome this. But the unavailability of tests up until now is a scandal that makes us look like a Third World country.
CDC - You had ONE JOB!
I don't know that it is to blame, but is it fair to ask if they prevented the disease?
If this is how they perform, might as well just kill it and save the taxpayers some money.
We are learning a LOT on this.
A deadly lesson.
They were too busy with guns and climate change.
There ya go. Direct the money to The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. At least they do SOMEthing akin to what the name suggests.
https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm
CDC’s Climate and Health Program is excited to celebrate 10 years of supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies as they prepare for specific health impacts of a changing climate. CDC is proud of the collaborative work states, cities, territories, and tribes are doing to develop and implement adaptation plans to protect at-risk populations and locations.
Salkow!
And trying to figure out how gays could have sex with lots of people without getting a disease.
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Note this was started in 2010, right in the middle of the H1N1 pandemic.
Yep. Among others.
They are still likely in the way.
Climate Change.
What a ****ing farce.
!0 years my butt. A lot of people will be lucky to make it until the end of this year.
Trump needs to blow up the CDC when this is over.
Jeez...the CDC is INFECTED with Climate Hoax hockey sticks. No wonder they can’t get movin’ off their slow-pokin’ asses.
CDC completely to blame for all medical shortcomeing.
Making sure all these problems don’t happen IS THEIR ONE AND ONLY JOB.
EPIC FAIL.
PEOPLE DIE.
No the CDC is not to blame...how can you possibly put a test together when you’re dealing with an ‘unknown’ virus nobody had seen before nor knew what it was? let alone why people were dying from it..... Not to mention China failing to give adequate information nor would they let scientists or any auhtority in to determine what was going on?
Too many people are so negative and totally uninformed here.
We all know it was TRUMP’S FAULT! /s/
I don’t buy it. There were plenty of lessons from 2009 they never applied. Right in the middle of the H1N1 pandemic they got more concerned about Climate Change.
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