Million coronavirus tests won't be ready this week after all

[struggle4progress]

Carlie Porterfield
Forbes Staff

Officials announced Thursday that the Trump administration’s promise of one million coronavirus tests for use this week won’t happen ...

The government is still days or even weeks from sending test kits out and providing training ...

“I’m afraid it becomes clear as each day goes by that the president’s initial dismissal of this threat was wishful thinking and not well-founded,” Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists ...

... Throughout his presidency, Trump previously slashed resources meant for dealing with the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. The administration’s most recent budget proposal recommended a 16% cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/03/05/trump-officials-1-million-coronavirus-tests-wont-be-ready-this-week-after-all/#3f0b7ed1791c

[soryang]

1. Incompetence, evasion, misrepresentation from the administration

Is anyone surprised?

"Testing is the main weapon we have," said Dr. Keith Jerome, who heads the virology division at the (UW) medical school's department of laboratory medicine. "Until we have a vaccine, this is our major tool."

With 11 deaths its more likely there are 2000 or more cases at this point.

[louis-t]

2. Surprise, surprise.

You mean Pence lied?

[spanone]

3. But....it sounded good when they said it....eh?

optics. that's all they got.

[struggle4progress]

6. "We like to talk at people with short attention spans"

[Chainfire]

4. The less you test

The less you have to admit you have.

[Dem2]

5. Either the US has a 6% death rate

...or we're just not testing enough people.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Anyone who even thought that was

a possibility,needs mental evaluation like yesterday. But,like everything else in the Orange Anus Administration,bullshit rules the day.