Hospitals without walls:
1. A very good but very extreeeeeeemely late move; should have been done back in January, February or March at the latest.
2. CMS should not demand that such moves by hospitals go through state bureaucrat approval, CMS approval should be enough.
In the article is this link:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/cvs-health-coronavirus-self-swab-testing-white-house
It is about CVS expanding its offering of the Wuhan Virus personal swab tests at their facilities (drive thru). But left in place is a command (not a law) that anyone seeking such a swab test at CVS (or anywhere else) must meet a CDC eligibility standard or they can’t get a test.
Neither doctors nor bureaucrats should be able to stand in the way of consumers getting such tests. Trump should use executive emergency authority to expand production of the test kits so that they are ubiquitous - available on demand to any consumer asking for them - no doctor’s note, no CDC regulation, no bureaucratic rule.
You are right
Hypocrondriacs should be able to get tested every day ......on demand, for free
You have to realize that due to bureaucratic BS this was not possible back then, and testing was an even bigger clusterfiretruck. Not only were the reserves depleted of PPE and ventilators, but the whole system was a big POS created by Congressional and bureaucratic regulations which often contradicted each other.
The big problem with testing is that the traditional tests *cannot* be done in your doctor’s office or by just anybody who has a kit. It requires proper training. And the results *must* be analyzed in a specially equipped lab.
There has been a lot of willy nilly testing going on and the results should never have been counted. The test is notorious for throwing both false positives and negatives. Although when properly done, it is quite reliable.
I don’t know if there is a newer, easier to use test kit floating around. I have only researched the traditional one with the swab waaaaayyyyyy up your nose. Anyone asymptomatic who would want that test is a head case.
At this point, I believe none of the numbers from WHO or CDC or any state, county, or local government. They’re relying on reports from people who did the tests and analyses wrong.
There are a few people I deem credible. They all predict that the US mortality rate will ultimately shake out at under 1%.