[cba123]

Finally.

Finally.

[HypatiaTaught]

Finally, maybe a month too late.

Without accurate tests, how in the hell could anyone determine our status.

Let the testing BEGIN.

[cba123]

“We need to have testing as close to the population as possible,” he said. “We’re going to see what I call the popcorn effect, showing up here and there, because of return travelers. Now that the testing got expanded, I’m hoping and praying it’s just in time in the sense that the test kits will be there, up and ready, where there’s a need for more.”

(End of the story, from the link)

Apparently, we will see new results, this week?

[firebrand]

$12 billion a year and this is what we get.

Putting Pence in charge was a masterstroke.

[janetjanet998]

Trump: stop the flights from South Korea and Italy!!

just in
CDC recommends avoiding all nonessential travel to Italy and Iran. More info: https://bit.ly/2uB0W19

[grey_whiskers]

Too little, too late.
Done deliberately to try to take down the US (either the economy, or pandemic, or panic, or economy) to take out Trump.
It is long past time for Trump to fire all these vermin, strip them of their citizenship, and send them directly to Wuhan or Qom.

[cba123]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1145206

[mewzilla]

Good news for a number of reasons.

Watch the coronavirus story disappear down a memory hole shortly.

[Rappini]

leave it to NBC to keep the scare going. We are no way near the COVID-19 flue deaths opposite Regular flue deaths.

[House Atreides]

“This has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC said.
*********************************************************
Dr. Messonnier is the despicable sister of Rod Rosenstein. IMHO, she is as much of a snake in the grass as her slippery brother. SHE is the official responsible for procuring the Coronavirus TEST KITS. Was that procurement screwed up INTENTIONALLY or was it done by INCOMPETENCE?

[realcleanguy]

It’s a brand new virus. We don’t even know how to treat it yet. Creating kits that accurately detect it is not something you develop overnight. I understand the problems. The test kits China is using (or lack their of) must not be good because the infection rate is high and the deaths are high. In fact they just wait for people to get sick and put them into the hospital

[Lazamataz]

I used to work for these guys. I’m surprised they fumbled this so badly. They are usually right on top of things.

[goldstategop]

No one has died here yet. Still, the FR Chicken Little Brigade runs around screaming the end of the world is at hand.

[bigbob]

A doc said they can identity it with a CAT scan, which nearly every hospital can do.

[ncalburt]

No one got fired for this massive screw up .
How many infected people were allowed to walk away in the last five weeks in airports and ERs.
The infected are still strolling at the airports and no testing before entering the US . Two news virus cases from Korea and Italy visitors. We have no idea if they are deaths linked to the virus weeks ago .
Why didn't these idiots just asked Duke Univ to set up there
great Antibody Cluster testing system they set up in Singapore.
That detects people before the test kits results are done .

The US is becoming a sad third tier bureaucracy of fools .
Why dont we set up the TB quarantine camp and hospital system from 1940s and 1950s.

[Grampa Dave]

Good news! Homeland Virus cops are coming to lock your and family up!

It is amazing how many so called conservatives want the Feds to take over our lives due to this so called emergency.

That type of bs is how we ended up with Homeland Security and TSA. They make air travel miserable 24/7, and probably have eliminated zero air tragedies.

If you want Homeland Virus or whatever to be able to quarantine you and your family:

You are an idiot and not a conservative.

Then, to Mass Quarantinofornias !!!.. Sanctuary States in rapid decline!!!.. Norm’s Revenge

[Raycpa]

Every test has false positives and false negatives. These can cause many problems.

[Mariner]

A full month after US Travel restrictions. And a full month after every developed country in the world.

A full 2.5 months after CDC had it’s first sample of the virus.

Now we have a working test kit?

Should not somebody be held responsible for this debacle?

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[bgill]

Only two months late to the party.

[I want the USA back]

Trump will be trashed, claiming that this is too late. If it works, he will get no credit. If there’s a problem, they will trash Trump.

Those who hate Trump will never give him credit for anything.