Covid-19

[D-West & PO-Z]

It sounds good to say everyone should be able to get tested. Here’s the question. How quickly can you make 357 million test kits? Even if only half of the people want to be tested, that’s still almost 180 million tests. How long will it then take to process those tests?

It’s impractical to suggest that’s remotely possibly, yet I’m hearing people in the media blaming Trump for not having the tests readily available.


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C'mon dont be ridiculous. They dont need 350 million tests or even close to 180 million. We have tested 2,000 people (as of a few days ago) in this country. Ohio has 400 test kits total.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...-kits-covid-19

"The figures we gathered suggest that the American response to the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has been shockingly sluggish, especially compared with that of other developed countries. The CDC confirmed eight days ago that the virus was in community transmission in the United States—that it was infecting Americans who had neither traveled abroad nor were in contact with others who had. In South Korea, more than 66,650 people were tested within a week of its first case of community transmission, and it quickly became able to test 10,000 people a day. The United Kingdom, which has only 115 positive cases, has so far tested 18,083 people for the virus."

The testing has been a cluster. There are people who have come in close contact with people who have confirmed diagnosis who are being turned away from being tested.