Why is Abbott the only company making them? Why aren’t we seeing press conferences like with the ventilators so that any capable company are making these things all over the country 24/7?
If I own a restaurant, sports franchise, mall, etc. make it simple for me to buy them and let me have the most popular spot in town and get rid of this virus in a heartbeart.
So far the dems haven’t been able to see this massive achilles heel in Trump’s plan. But if we re-open and people are dying and you can’t get easily tested, then all bets are off come November.
You need the test equip to process the sample. Those are already in hospitals, labs and clinics.
The new toaster sized processors are be rolled out to be used in places were the large lab equipment isn’t affordable to going to get much use.
Walgreens is or already has set up drive through testing in hot spots.
ThermoFisher is planning on producing at a rate of 6.5M test kits per month by end of April and then 10M by end of June.
Quest and LabCorp will be combined close to 300k tests per week.
I think one company does 80% of all the testing in South Korea... samples are collected and transfered to a central location for processing
You're about three weeks behind on your press conferences.
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