Posted on 05/04/2020 4:38:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
The cry du jour from the usual anti-Trump folks is testing, testing, testing! Where are my COVID-19 (aka Wuhan) virus test kits, some governors shout? As of the start of Ramadan (April 23, 2020), about 5 million tests have been administered in the U.S. The current rate of testing with proven underutilized equipment by states, counties and cities is about 1,000,000 per week. At President Trump’s daily COVID-19 virus task force briefing Thursday, the president noted that all 183 other countries’ combined testing was less than what the U.S. has done. (By the way, I can’t remember the frequency that the Obama administration held public briefings about the H1N1 pandemic. Much of the time I was out of the country. Were they held from Martha’s Vineyard or golf courses in Hawaii or Palm Springs?)
Between April 2009 and April 2010, CDC held 60 related media events – 39 press briefings and 22 telebriefings – reaching more than 35,000 participants. From 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Timeline per CDC.
So how was the testing done for H1N1 under Obama’s watch? According to CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in their June 16, 2010 report, The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: Summary Highlights, April 2009 - April 2010: “On May 1, 2009, CDC test kits began shipping to domestic and international public health laboratories. (Each test kit contained reagents to test 1,000 clinical specimens). From May 1 through September 1, 2009, more than 1,000 kits were shipped to 120 domestic and 250 international laboratories in 140 countries. Once labs had the test kits and verified that their testing was running properly, they were able to identify new cases more quickly than before and no longer needed to send samples to CDC for lab confirmation”.
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Waiting for a practical vaccination program is a fool’s errand, something that is still a distant glimmer. Testing for both the active viral infection and the presence of antibodies is much more of an attainable goal, and foot-dragging on the program is an inexcusable dereliction of duty. Whining about “no progress” is just pathetic.
I understand your eagerness, to get beyond this. I really do.
We here (I am American, but currently in Vietnam) feel the same way. I get it. We have been completely shut down for two months. Wearing masks everywhere for three months.
Just last week we started opening back up, for most things, but still closed for travel without spending two weeks in quarantine.
The thing is, I understand your feelings.
But here, the disease is now, completely eliminated at the moment. No (new) active cases anywhere here, in over a week. Almost two.
So I am not completely sure things, are exactly the same.
But I completely understand your feelings, and frustration.
What exactly do they hope to do with the sudden push for testing, testing, testing? What good will testing, testing, testing do? To prove there are a lot of cases? We already know that. To prove that there’s about a 97-98% survival rate? We know that. To prove that underlying conditions are a big big factor? We already know that. What’s the end game?
There can be no testing equality.
No testing for all is unAmerican, Un democratic
Trump is bad
Pelosi created a strawman in order to bash the President.
She deserves to be destroyed. She has become a dangerous American enemy
We’ll happily go for antibody testing.
If we’ve had it, we’ll cut ourselves loose and will take a pass on any vaccine for a while.
The end game, like the goal posts, constantly moves as needed to ensure Trump’s/our accomplishments are quickly forgotten.
Immigration pause - check
mobilization of multi-industry task force - check
Ramp ups and scale ups on PPE - check
Military and VA called to build/deploy/support - check
Citizen engagement in mitigation - check
Mitigation success - check
Ventilator oversupply - check
Food supply protection - check
What! only testing 1 million / week ?!!!!
What exactly do they hope to do with the sudden push for testing, testing, testing? What good will testing, testing, testing do? To prove there are a lot of cases? We already know that. To prove that there’s about a 97-98% survival rate? We know that. To prove that underlying conditions are a big big factor? We already know that. What’s the end game?
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It’s just the MSM moving the goal posts. Now that there is testing, for whatever-the-hell purpose as you so rightly note, the MSM will find something else to harp on.
Keeping a close eye on both Oxford University and University of Pittsburgh in regards to the promising vacines front.
If their vaccines are as good as their models, I'll pass, thanks. 😄
They just started in the last few weeks human testing.
They could test it for 5 years.
I know longer trust anything coming outta Oxford.
Still love the architecture, though.
They literally don’t make them like that anymore.
“No testing for all is unAmerican, Un democratic”
You forgot,too. Probably racist.
I had watched yesterday CBS Sunday Morning and had seen the present head of the Jonas Salk building at the University of Pittsburgh.
So Vietnam has even less herd immunity than the U.S., and when no vaccine arrives by the end of this year, Vietnam will just close down completely again, lest too many of the previously not infected get their first dose - wherein 80% to 90%+ would have a mild illness at most, leaving the vulnerable the ones truly needing sheltering and protection.
Testing everyone is a head fake and an unattainable goal. Testing specific groups however makes sense. Examples - nursing homes, identified vulnerables, specific industries (meat processors, health care, etc.).
They seem to have gotten things under a semblance of control currently, but it sure has significantly impacted tourism, now, that still seems completely shut down.
Locally however, some things seem to be improving, at present.
So far, so good. But still very much not normal. Hugely slower, for everyone still.
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