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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIIRC, it was yesterday I saw reported that there are 40 mil. tests available, yet only 5 mil. have
been tested??Whiskey Tango Alpha Foxtrot??
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)There have been plenty of tests for weeks.
The test includes a long Qtip in a sterile package, and a container to store it in to send to the lab.
And that is where the system collapses. There arent near enough testing supplies (what they call reagents) or a process to expedite the testing.
SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)Pence actually tried to play this game of what "test" means when asked about his promise a month ago that he was sending out millions of tests "within the week." He now claims when he said test he only meant the kit.
But if a kit does not have reagent and a facility to process it, then it is not a test. It is just a fucking Q-tip.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)Reporter brought up how Pence said a month ago that 4 million tests would be done. Pence: I said testing would be done, YOU misunderstood...I didnt say anything was ran/processed. Trump in the background fucking smirking like good boy, Pence, good boy.
onecaliberal
(32,887 posts)Most of them were not actually tested for efficacy by the FDA. I ready somewhere there were a lot of false positives with several of the tests, so...
sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)i do not mean that disparagingly
good damn thing my parents are departed
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)You need people to do the swabs and to process the samples. That's the bottleneck right now.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)We are a third world country.