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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 04:34 AM Apr 2020

500,000 COVID-19 swab test kits flown to Memphis

[link:https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/500000-covid-19-swab-test-kits-flown-to-memphis/522-0b33c752-c3ec-4681-b941-cb306e6e1563|

500,000 COVID-19 swab test kits flown to Memphis
164th Airlift Wing delivered them in a C-17 cargo aircraft at the Memphis Air National Guard Base

Author: Istvan Bardos
Published: 10:18 PM CDT April 9, 2020
Updated: 10:18 PM CDT April 9, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tennessee —

Loads of resources in the fight against the coronavirus landed at the Memphis Air National Guard Base at Memphis International Airport Thursday night.

Airmen from the 164th Airlift Wing delivered 500,000 COVID-19 swab tests. It's the second time in three weeks the mobility command transported that number of swabs to help test people across the United States.

The swabs are produced by an Italian company, which continues to produce them to satisfy its country and global requirements.

Where are they going?????

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500,000 COVID-19 swab test kits flown to Memphis (Original Post) SheltieLover Apr 2020 OP
Meanwhile people are dying in NYC without being tested Marrah_Goodman Apr 2020 #1
were these confiscated by Jared's task force? Captain Zero Apr 2020 #2
knr Lucinda Apr 2020 #3

Marrah_Goodman

(1,586 posts)
1. Meanwhile people are dying in NYC without being tested
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 05:24 AM
Apr 2020

Those people are not being tested after death and are not counted in the official death tallies.

Captain Zero

(6,823 posts)
2. were these confiscated by Jared's task force?
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 06:13 AM
Apr 2020

in another thread there is information on tests being confiscated in Memphis by Jared's task force because they are fake tests.

That thread says they came in on FedEx.

Something's up/.

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