Posted on 04/16/2020 7:35:52 AM PDT by rintintin
WASHINGTON—Banking and financial services executives told President Trump that his administration needed to dramatically increase the availability of coronavirus testing before the public would be confident enough to return to work, eat at restaurants or shop in retail establishments, according to people familiar with the matter.
The push for more testing came in the first of four Wednesday phone calls that Mr. Trump held with business executives on his newly formed task force to reopen the economy. The president has been intensely focused on the topic amid increasingly dire economic data; Wednesday brought reports that retail sales and U.S. industrial production dropped dramatically in March.
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Well he will just run into the back room and mix those right up. Who is running these businesses, a bunch of morons? They are working as fast as they can.
Why in the hell didn’t the individual states, with their individual budgets, have contingency plans in place for this?
We could, but you can only produce so many tests. I don’t expect large-scale availability of test until middle May 2020 at earliest.
The Businesses are terrified of litigation. Walmart has already hit by a law suit claiming an employee got it while working. The scumbag trial lawyers could well pose the biggest obstacle to re-opening.
Ivy League MBA's - who have been taught since entering school that Government is All-Knowing.
Testing is in short supply worldwide. Did these wise ones offer any solutions?
Don’t these media heads follow the briefings??
We are dramatically increasing testing, and when there’s an antibody test approved they will come on line too.
If anyone wants to truly be informed just watch the WH press briefings!! Bypass these ignorant feral media blabbing heads.
https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos
Nobody stopping these “business leaders” of doing it themselves...
What a country we have descended to. Our Titans Of Industry make huge salaries but can’t keep TP or hand sanitizer on the shelves nor develop and market either a test or a vaccine.
Hopefully, after all this is done, many, many executive heads will roll, from airlines who did stock buybacks instead of having ready cash for emergencies to the morons in charge of logistics for the big retailers who can’t even stock kleenex to these bastards running the drug companies who have their thumbs up their asses after selling us out to the Chinese.
Trump’s role in this is not to ‘increase testing.’ What he has done is cut red tape and regulations so labs like Abbott (and others) can bring tests to the market faster.
At this point, it is up the individual states to figure out how to make those tests readily available to their citizens...not the feds. He can influence the situation from the bully-pulpit by issuing non-binding guidelines. But, that’s it.
I often wonder if people really know how federal republics work?
While more testing is needed, what type and what tests have been validated as showing reliable results? Some tests show you have an active infection, others show you have had it and others show you had it and now have antibodies that may protect you in the future.
Also, the tests are made by several different companies here or abroad. The rush to get tests meant quality control and reliable results were not first priorities.
Testing will make people more sure about reopening the economy but waiting for a 100% reliable test will be too long so let’s do some reopening now. We can always walk the reopening back if infections start ramping up.
The tests are apparently not the problem - there is a shortage of approved labs to process them. There was a very good suggestion in the WSJ this morning that the administration arrange with (currently closed) university research labs all over the country to process the tests. I thought that was a great idea - they have the equipment and the personnel, and the universities would probably be glad of the income.
This is the Wall Street Journal everyone, before believing the story here it should be verified with at least one trusted news source.
Where is the news that these companies have anted-up to purchase additional testing kits?
Less bitching, more doing. That’s the potential power of big business
Notice there are TWO ‘authors’ which one is the political minder and which one wrote the story?
Hopefully, after all this is done, many, many executive heads will rolall”
Starting with the federal bureaucracies that blocked and botched the process of getting testing out to the American people. CDC and FDA
I’m very disappointed that Trump isn’t calling out these swampsters. Instead he’s standing by them, along with scarf lady and Fauci
Hopefully more people are learning...”how federal republics work,”
I think it’s coming...
Yeah I’m not going to get into another whole big thing here again with ScoobyDoo about this, but these “business leaders” don’t know what they are talking about.
The tests we have now test the nasal cavity for ACTIVE INFECTIONS. The fact that you test negative today does not mean you can’t go out and get infected tomorrow. You would have to test people daily, which will drive the number of test kits needed into the stratosphere.
Likewise the antibody test won’t be a panacea. Abbott says they can have 20 million of them in six weeks or so. That will be useful for clearing first responders and hospital workers, but again nowhere near universal testing.
350 million antibody kits might be a thing by the time COVID-87 comes along.
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