Were up to around 900,000 tests.
On point of care test by Abbott ... at most 15 minutes for a negative result. There are 18,000 of these machines around the world. starting April 2, 50,000 tests a day, first shipments already made.
Interesting he says the test result changes how the people are treated. This is contrary to what has been said in the past, which was that treatment depends on the symptoms, not on the virus.
Can you insure that every patient that needs a ventilator will get one? (he got pissed at this gotcha question yesterday, groundhog day). Trump now praises GM for getting on the ball. He doesn;t take the bait on will you guarantee enough ventilators.
Personally....I think that a lot of things that were said/done, initially, were to get our (very lacking) supplies up to speed.
Trump Task Force doing measured responses to get supplies up (considering practically ALL supply chains are/were cut off, from China).
I think the new testing responses will also involve the HCQ/Zpak protocol, at some point in the treatment schedule. (Again...drug and drug component supplies were cut off.)
Thanks, again, for the details.
Press wants to know why FL got all the material they wanted, but NY didn’t?
Trump says that he thinks the feds are working well with MI and MA. Again, why has FL gotten 100% of what they ask for? Trump says the FED is committed to working with all the governors. Maybe FL has been more aggressive at getting things on their own.
He thinks most states will be satisfied. Cites John Bel Edwards as being impressed that FED is being proactive, giving more than governor would have asked for. In NY, the FED has built 2,900 hospital beds. That was not done by the state. Getting better and better every day at getting this sort of thing done. What about your letter to the governors on criteria for classifying counties. Do you have enough dayta to rank counties? Yes. But lots of false info being put out.
Q on strategy that will be exposed Tuesday, and could April 30 be extended? we hope not, but we have to do it right. Trump emphasises that 2.2 million people would have died. He though the April 30 announcement would come Tuesday, but decided to do it now so it didn’t leak between now and Tuesday.