The US could be buying WHO virus test kits from Germany - Now

[denem]

Donald Trump’s troubling coronavirus address
Financial Times, March 12, 2020

... The US has tested fewer than 6,000 people out of a population of 327m. By contrast, the Netherlands, with 17m people, is testing that many every day. South Korea, with 51m people, is testing 10,000 a day. The shortage of US kits stems from federal bureaucratic delays. One simple fix would be to import them from Germany, which are WHO-approved.

Mr Trump said nothing about tests other than that health insurers would waive co-pay charges on those being tested. That moderate incentive is irrelevant until the US has a capacity to screen more people. Mr Trump could have tackled the problem at a stroke by saying the US would import as many kits as necessary. But that would have undercut the spirit of his message: the epidemic comes from a “foreign virus”, he said; America must therefore narrow its access to the world.

https://www.ft.com/content/0be9b456-6414-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Wonder how much trump hopes to make from selling kits?

[Ohiogal]

2. What about people with no health insurance?

Waiving co pay charges on being tested does zero to help anyone not insured.

[denem]

4. Government to Government

Distribution by the CDC without charge.

[Ilsa]

3. Too bad we can't get them in through Amazon, etc. Maybe Bloomberg or Bezos

can fly them in before trump's ban stops them. Buy 300,000,000 split by some billionaires.

Have them ready. I suspect the numbers of positives will sink mf45's presidency.

[Richard D]

5. They are for sale via alibaba

For like $2 each.

[BComplex]

6. Really? Seriously?

You mean we (those of us who have an account) could order them?

[Richard D]

7. They are not the swab versions

They need serum or plasma. So for labs.