Posted on 04/24/2020 12:43:36 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
As California tries to ramp up coronavirus testing as an essential step toward lifting stay-at-home restrictions, it faces significant hurdles that have been a problem from the start.
Bottlenecks in the supply chain. Delays getting results. Areas without testing sites.
Despite those challenges, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out ambitious goals to quadruple current testing in the coming months.
Newsom expects the state to go from offering 16,000 tests a day, as of Wednesday, to 25,000 per day by May 1.
He won’t consider reopening businesses at large until 60,000 to 80,000 people are tested a day, which could be months from now, and an “army” of workers can begin tracking down everyone who may have been infected by someone who tests positive.
Health experts say this is the most prudent path to normal without risking an explosion of new cases by prematurely reopening.
“Let’s see whether he can deliver,” said Karin Michels, an epidemiology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“If tomorrow we switch to 70,000 (tests) then it still takes 20 months to test everybody once,” Michels said, referring to all 40 million Californians. “If you tell me 25,000 by the end of the month, well the end of the month is next week. They need to go higher.”
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I think Governor of CA is being unrealistic...I am not sure if that many testing will ever take place...
"Months from now"...What? Like December?
There is at least one UCLA Professor who thinks that Governor Gavin's idea is great...
Maybe she will change her mind when UCLA decides to cut pay for professors...University of Arizona announced that there will be pay cuts...How about UCLA?
“He won’t consider reopening businesses at large until 60,000 to 80,000 people are tested a day,”
His stupidity is beyond measure.
At a certain point, counties, cities, and business owners are going to have to say “F this guy, we are doing business”.
Who hired him? OH Yeah..California voters.HA ha.
At a certain point, counties, cities, and business owners are going to have to say “F this guy, we are doing business”.
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County of San Luis Obispo sent a letter to Governor Gavin...The letter was signed by county officials, Republicans and Democrats...The letter asked for his permission for the county to open up businesses...
Governor Gavin said no...He stated that all counties have to be on the same page...
There’s no excuse for this pathetic lag in testing.
California has run 482,000 tests, second only to New York.
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Use some of those supplies to wipe the lectern clean after Fancy Nancy casually wiped her snots on it.
Are you venting or are you Serious? Have some perspective. What European country is doing better than the US? No one was prepared for this virus. It caught the entire world flat footed. When your car breaks down in the highway, do you lament that you dont have a spare carburetor in the trunk? Poop happens. Testing is getting better and better each day and in a matter of weeks it will be a non-issue. Then, no doubt, you’ll move on to another issue there is no excuse for. One day I hope to be as clairvoyant as you.
The goal,was never to stop the spread. It was to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed. That’s been achieved.
Please don't bring common sense to the party. We're on a roll here.
The sad truth about Gavin is that he’s got a very low IQ. He fools people because he dress well and is a fairly good speaker, but poor fellow is just dumb as a box of rocks. As a child, he was place in special education because he couldn’t do regular school work. His father’s close friendship with the gazillionaire Getty family propelled Gav into business success and then San Francisco politics.
Now, we learn about FOG (Friends of Gavin).
Follow the money.
He won’t consider reopening businesses at large until 60,000 to 80,000 people are tested a day, which could be months from now, and an “army” of workers can begin tracking down everyone who may have been infected by someone who tests positive.
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...and then do what? Isolate them forever?
The testing results are going to quickly blowup in the libtrards faces. They’re going to discover the uncomfortable truth that a majority of the populace is already positive for the antibody, meaning they had the disease and didn’t even know it. No symptoms. No reaction.
It may not be stupidity.
Somebody’s making money off of all that testing.
Cui bono?
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