Posted on 06/15/2020 7:15:10 AM PDT by RightGeek
The story of how the country went from nothing to more than half-a-million COVID tests on some days is a tale of inspired private–public cooperation. After bad initial stumbles when the Centers for Disease Control fouled up the initial test (at a time when it had a monopoly on testing) and when a Food and Drug Administration regulatory bottleneck stymied the development of testing in the private sector, the administration found its footing.
It used cooperative data, governmental authorities, relationships with the private sector, and improvisation-on-the-fly to work through supply shortages and other problems. Giroir’s team, a group of trouble-shooting aides around White House adviser Jared Kushner, the FDA, and the Department of Health and Human Services all played important roles. Meanwhile, private companies — often working hand-and-glove with the administration — quickly innovated and scaled up their production of everything from swabs to test kits.
At the beginning of March, there were fewer than 1,000 tests in the country on most days. By the end of March, there were more than 100,000 a day. The number climbed again before hovering somewhere around 150,000 a day for much of April.
Then it bumped up again, to more than 200,000 at the end of the month. It surpassed 400,000 for the first time on May 17. On May 29, it was nearly 500,000. It’s been in the range of 400,000 to 500,000 most days since, with a high of more than 580,000 just this just Friday.
More than 23 million tests have been run altogether, more than 3 million over just the last week. In April, 32 million tests were produced, and in May, 39 million, with the trajectory further upward. Giroir expects to be able to perform 50 million tests per month by September.
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Dem Governors have a testing strategy as well.
Ramp-up testing to produce spikes in new cases when it politically behooves them to do so.
The “spike” in COVID-19 positives is because we are doing testing on a scale that no other country has attempted (yet). Besides, given it’s summer now, people getting enough Vitamin D from Sun exposure lowers the risk of actually catching the disease. I’d recommend people living north of 37° North latitude (about 60% of the continental USA) start taking 1,000 IU Vitamin D3 and 22-25 mg of zinc in supplement form from the autumnal equinox on.
Oh no, Mr. Bill! How in the world could this happen? I'm sure that their political agenda has nothing to do with it.
I am waiting for the news article that says the media was right on something and it was proved correct. They can’t even get the simple stuff correct anymore.
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