Massive testing can help reopen economy

providence journal ^ | Apr 3, 2020 | Patrice Milos

[rintintin]

In the face of today’s global health pandemic, we are experiencing a time of tremendous uncertainty. As the former CEO of a molecular diagnostic laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I believe advanced diagnostic technologies are ready to address the challenges we face.

Today, Germany is testing between 360,000 to 500,000 citizens for viral infection weekly — tracking the spread of the coronavirus early. This enables self-quarantine for those who test positive and allows healthy individuals to move back to society.

The German Health Ministry is investing 500 million euros to create a database to link hospitals with labs to provide information. In April, they will begin testing for viral immunity — at a scale of 100,000 people a week.

Here, U.S. communities are still asking, “Who is COVID-19 free? Who has antibodies to protect against the virus?”

These two questions must be answered to move the country past our current crisis. As newspapers report, federal and state public health agencies are struggling to move community testing forward.

Unlike Germany, our federal and state governments have spent the last decade spending on other things than meeting the needs of critically ill patients and setting up comprehensive testing programs.

But, as we have seen over the last few weeks, the federal Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are able to evaluate and approve new diagnostic testing technologies. These new technologies will produce testing results on-site in less than an hour. Working with these latest diagnostic technologies, we should consider another path forward.

[Moonlighter]

It’s a lot easier to monitor a population of 23 v 330 million.

[cp124]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5pIMD1enwd4&feature=youtu.be

[Moonlighter]

Those three countries combined don’t even equal a 1/4 of the US population. Different bowl of wax.

[rintintin]

So you don’t let “the man” tell you what to do? You must have a trunk full of traffic tickets?

[Steely Tom]

I’ve got 2 drive thru testing spots near me and traffic is jammed there every hour they are open. Meanwhile other parts of the country complain they still can’t get tested. 350 million antibody blood tests, even if they could be done logistically, would never get done before the virus burns out.

"Find a need, and fill it."

[353FMG]

Access to HCQ by the general public will have a positive effect on the stockmarket

Wake up,Fauci!

[Alberta's Child]

I have had one moving violation in more than 25 years of driving. I could have fought that one in court, but it was only a $10 fine and I would have had to travel 200+ miles to a court appearance in another state.

I don’t obey traffic laws because the law requires me to obey them. I obey traffic laws because I know how streets and highways are supposed to function.

[lewislynn]

More of your mass testing lunacy.

350,000,000 / 500,000wk = 700 wks or 13.5 yrs.

California 40,000,000 / 500,000 wk = 80wks or 1.5 yrs

You need to curl up in the corner and lick you balls or move to Germany.

[ssfromla]

Everyone has antibodies. You all are being gas lighted and don't realize it.

Do the tests confirm antibodies for Covid?

Are the tests able to determine (after they supposedly test positive for covid and not the latest flu antibodies) how much is in one's system and at what stage they are in with the virus?

If everyone was tested and you put them into groups to let some go back to work and some to return to "self" quarantine how would they determine again I'm asking at what stage of the virus? Who decides they are well enough to return to society?

If the quarantine is 14 to whatever the hell they have come up with today then how would they know for sure that the ones they've released back into society haven't gotten sick after the test?

There are a lot of adults that need to read up on how viruses work and how antibodies work in your body before jumping on the Faucci band wagon and not asking the real questions from those elitist genocidal freaks. The bought and paid for media driving fear will never tell you the truth so don't trust them either. When have the government or media proved that they are able to be trusted?

Yea, they never have.

I'm here to tell you that the tests are a cover for their nefarious scheme of eventually everyone having mandatory vaccines.

Bill Gates wants everyone to have vaccines because he has stated in various interviews and his ted talks that with vaccines he can lower the population. Who died and left him (his father was a genocidal baby killer) and his ilk in charge? Who died and let the genocidal Faucci in charge?

The vaccines have left thousands of children with autism and other mental retardation immediately after taking a vaccine (happened to my grandson and it breaks my heart) because of the other "fluff" they put into them. They can put anything in the world they want to in these vaccines and would you really trust them not to put something in them that will make you even sicker?

The culling of the sheep has begun and we've talked about it for years and everyone laughed and ridiculed us but now I beg you not to believe the government and media for you and your families well being.

God is my savior. Not the government.

Don't drink the koolaid

[mewzilla]

Nobody would be forcing me.

I’d be first in line with my arm out.

Besides, why give folks a vaccine if they don’t need one?

[Sequoyah101]

What we are doing now is a panic response that is costing us a fortune, our future and actually accomplishing very little if anything.

Dreadfully sad.

[353FMG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3J_1B7kJbk

[Go Gordon]

We are NOT going to antibody test 350 million people. That’s ludicrous.

[Lou L]

It seems to me that you would have to routinely test people multiple times, perhaps multiple times in one week, to ensure they weren’t exposed since their last test. We’re no where near that level of testing.

[Amendment10]

Glad that PDJT will probably rebuild FDA and CDC like he did with military.

Send "Orange Man Bad" Democrats and RINOs home in November!

MAGA, also KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping COVID-19 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.

[Paladin2]

Keeping the US economy largely closed is ludicrous and WAY more expensive than testing.

[Paladin2]

We need a test at home kit, like a pregnancy test.

[Paladin2]

"We’re no where near that level of testing."

And the CDC/FDA are likely still standing in the way of getting there.

[comebacknewt]

It is impossible to test for pregnancy.

Don’t you realize how many people get pregnant every year?

The logistics of doing so are impossible I tell you. Impossible.

[Paladin2]

"The logistics of doing so are impossible I tell you. Impossible."

And what good statist wouldn't want the state to collect your DNA too and charge for government employee labor ilo doing it in the privacy of your own home [though you might want to share the good news with Alexa...].