Holy mother of ... Only 8 tests performed today by the CDC and public health agencies nationwide

[LonePirate]

Link to tweet

@KagroX

Sanjay Gupta just had Don Lemon read the CDC’s coronavirus testing stats off of his phone.

ZERO tests conducted today by CDC.

A grand total of 8 tests conducted by other public health agencies across the country.

We are truly fucked.

[D_Master81]

1. Saw that live

That almost doesn’t seem real. Like how? Eight? We’ve had over 250 positive tests a day for a few days now. The real number is probably 10 times that amount

[Ms. Toad]

6. Check for yourself.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing-in-us.html

[MelissaB]

14. Thank you!

O.M.G.

[mucifer]

2. That doesn't sound right. The Illinois Department of Public Health has done hundreds of tests

I don't know how many today. But, it doesn't make sense they would do a handful today.
What about the drive thru testing in Washington State?

[Ms. Toad]

5. It's possible they are not yet reported on the CDC site -

but 8 is the number currently reported on the site.

CDC has done zero since 3/7.

Starting 3/1 here are the tests reported from elsewhere:

192
457
665
939
1192
1155
947
741
396
and - today - 8

[Midnightwalk]

15. Does that add up to

The total number of test kits? I hate to think that but there has to he a reason for the daily numbers to decline.

Even if more labs are testing the cdc should be tracking national testing rates and results statistics.

Edit: just read post 11 from highplains that says it’s a shortage of lab materials. Ugh.

[cstanleytech]

16. Oh it adds up if Trump is interfering and telling the heads of the CDC to not test or not to reveal

the results to the public.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Here's the link

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing-in-us.html

[rickyhall]

4. That motherfucker will kill us all!

[C_U_L8R]

7. And Trump didn't address anything meaningful at all.

He's got to go.

[uponit7771]

8. shit

[Jarqui]

10. You cannot begin to trace and control it without testing

(a statement of the obvious)

So yeah, deep trouble. It's going to peak like Italy and overload the hospitals.

It was great for Trump to tell kids it won't kill them tonight (which is not entirely true). Would have been handy to warn the kids that they could kill their parents or others. I had to straighten out my own kids on this. It also would have been wise to warn the kids that their lungs could get damaged.

The spirit should be that we're all in this together and we all need to help each other not get infected or get treatment, etc.

[highplainsdem]

11. This is why -- a shortage of lab materials:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/coronavirus-testing-lab-materials-shortage-125212

A looming shortage in lab materials is threatening to delay coronavirus test results and cause officials to undercount the number of Americans with the virus.

The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response. The latest problem involves an inability to prepare samples for testing, creating uncertainties in how long it will take to get results.

CDC Director Robert Redfield told POLITICO on Tuesday that he is not confident that U.S. labs have an adequate stock of the supplies used to extract genetic material from any virus in a patient’s sample — a critical step in coronavirus testing.

-snip-

Qiagen, a major supplier of the kits, confirmed that its product is backordered due to “the extraordinary pace” at which the world has increased coronavirus testing over the last few weeks.

-snip-

[AlexSFCA]

31. it already takes a few days to get the results

in comparison, in South Korea, you get results within 2hrs of drive through.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Tracking this in North Carolina

I found it very disturbing when I read the official NCDHHS report which states that NC only has an allocation of 150 tests. The estimated NC population is 10.38 million from 2018.

[SergeStorms]

23. But Trump is perfectly content....

to let the "private sector" handle it. Heaven forbid the government get involved. Those wealthy republican donors have to get repaid somehow. I guess the huge tax cuts didn't do enough for them.

[DonaldsRump]

27. Thank you for pointing that out

I am fed up to here with hearing Pence and Trump talking about the "private sector" and "corporate America" when this is absolutely what the federal, state, and local governments throughout the USA should be doing.

There is absolutely no coordination between the federal government vs. state and local governments. That fault lies SQUARELY with the Trump/Pence mal-administration.

"Private sector" and "corporate America" .... your COVID-19 response sucks.

[littlemissmartypants]

33. What are we paying taxes for if not for the government programs that

Support our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, for example? I am tried of supporting the MIC and expensive hammers. As a peacenik I'm sick of paying for war. When he can declare an emergency for a wall to be sure he can do so for a pandemic. Perhaps no one has explained to him the meanings of "virus" and "pandemic" but who am I kidding... he's a psychopath/sociopath. Their M. O. is to create as much pain and suffering as possible, because that's what feeds their disease. He couldn't care less. He's loving the disaster.

[SergeStorms]

42. It's the republican dream....

of "shrinking government to the size where it can be drowned in a bathtub." - Grover Norquist - well known American political activist and strategist for conservative and libertarian causes, especially the reduction of taxes.

This is what Trump has been doing since the day he stole office. He's been gutting the government, placing unqualified loyalists in positions of power, and exponentially adding to the national debt by cutting taxes for corporations and his wealthy benefactors. It always pays to know who your enemy is and what his intentions are.

[mwooldri]

43. My wife is a medical lab technician in a small hospital in NC.

A physician called into the lab at the hospital, and asked her what is the protocol if the physician suspects Covid-19. Wifey didn't know, so called to the big hospital lab and had their expert lay it down ... if the patient is sick enough to be admitted via the ER then the hospital can do the testing and send it to the state lab. Result would be available in 24 hours. Alternatively the doctor's office can take the swabs, and either LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics can do the test, but the samples will have to be put on dry ice. Test results will be back in days (3 days minimum). Most doctor's offices in the area don't have freezers or dry ice.

The patient in question though needed to have other tests first... For flu and for strep. Turns out this patient had both flu A and flu B. It's not to say the patient didn't have Covid-19 but with the patient having two strains of flu at once certainly puzzled the doctor and got them asking about Covid-19 testing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

45. How much does trump make from test kits and labs?

[JDC]

13. What the fuck!?

Insanity.

[Warpy]

17. They honestly think only poor people are going to die

That is the way they're acting.

3 cases in NM now, all "presumptive" since there are no tests.

[Ms. Toad]

21. I think presumptive means positive under the NM tests

but not confirmed by the CDC testing.

The CDC has three levels to classify a potential case of COVID-19:

Person Under Investigation (PUI): Any person who is under investigation for having the virus that causes COVID-19, or who was under investigation but tested negative for the virus.

Presumptive Positive case of COVID-19: Anyone who has tested positive for the virus, but testing was conducted at the local or state level. Currently, presumptive positive cases must have sample undergo confirmatory testing at the CDC.

Laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19: Anyone who has tested positive for the virus at the CDC laboratory.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-what-is-a-presumptive-positive-case-of-covid-19/289-ad6156b8-87eb-416b-aad3-856a8dde4385

[Flaleftist]

26. The most at risk population is the elderly which tends to vote GOP. You would think they would take

this seriously.

[SergeStorms]

44. But are also....

using "entitlements" (social security etc.) that republicans somehow think we don't deserve, even though we've paid into it since the first job we ever had. Somehow all that FICA that's been deducted from our wages for 50 years adds up to an "entitlement" for republicans. What they want is to take that money for themselves, and give it to the wealthy and investor class. Now that would be an "entitlement", but they fail to see that.

[Warpy]

46. The GOP has been stuck in magical thinking since Reagan

You know, tax cuts pay for themselves.

Trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats.

The end justifies the means.

Economies work from the top down.

Paying below subsistence will make the economy thrive.

They think this will just go "poof" any day now and that only poor people will die from it. It's all a big hoax, Donny Two Scoops said so on national teevee and their teevees don't lie. Or Republican Jebus will make sure only "those" people get it.

I'm over my three score and ten but without comorbidities, but I'm definitely in the crosshairs. If I ever tried voting GOP, my arm would fall off, jump up, and try to beat some sense into me.

However, the major risk factors are: over 60, male, hypertension, COPD or other lung disease, heart disease, diabetes.

I am absolutely furious at this sham government and every dumb doofus who got fooled into voting for it.

ETA: Dow futures at 3 AM EDT down 1029. Down 1031 2 hours ago, so it looks like tomorrow will be another day not to loon at the market until afternoon.

[gldstwmn]

18. There is a drive through testing site here in

Denver. It opened today. Why weren't those counted I wonder?

[littlemissmartypants]

35. Because the CDC is effectively dead. Trump killed it. nt

[mitch96]

19. We did 8 and little South Korea does TEN THOUSAND A DAY.. plus drive thru testing...

WTF??
M

[dlk]

20. They are lying

Trump & co. lie about everything else. They are lying about this, too. We have an anti-vaxxer in the WH and this has colored his entire response to the COVID-19 crisis.

[Native]

22. And we are the only country experiencing this shortage of materials?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Germany and WHO offered us test kits at outset. We said no.

[Native]

30. Yeah, that was at the beginning of February. We could have gotten out in front of this!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Know little about but heard an expert on matter say that

Our test kits are multilevel? Can detect various levels of flu? And they didn't work correctly? Sone such thing.

[Native]

39. It's been one disaster after another. Wish we could hire Singapore to run our response to this scourge

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. These people MUST speak up! Whoever trump is

muzzling.

[uponit7771]

41. +1, Maddow said something similar that's she surprised more people haven't spoken up

[Bayard]

28. Saw where Gov. Cuomo is contracting with private labs

To get sufficient tests. Every state should be looking at this if we can't get them any other way.

[Maru Kitteh]

29. Truly and duly.

[totodeinhere]

32. What in the fu*k is the matter with those people?

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

[BadgerMom]

34. Anyone know if state departments of health could buy/get the WHO test kits?

[Hekate]

37. If it didn't involve being in a heaving mass of angry humanity, I'd join a riot

[kimbutgar]

38. Switched over to Hannity to see what the alternate universe is saying

they are praising mf45’s response and saying he is doing a good job.

This is a clusterfuck of epic proportions and the mf45 administration has dropped the ball.

Just last week it was a Democrat party hoax who was hyping the seriousness of the virus. I wonder what that woman they interviewed last week at one of mf45’s nazi rallie who said it was a Democratic hoax is thinking tonight?

[C Moon]

40. Yeah, I heard my right wing nut neighbor let out a VERY loud and long cheer.

I thought it was sports related, but then noticed that Hannity was on.

[dewsgirl]

47. Yikes, I am thankful I don't have to deal with that kind of crap.😳