Google, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing
TECHNOLOGY NEWS MARCH 13, 2020 / 4:10 PM / UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO
(Reuters) - Corporate America joined the fight against the spread of coronavirus on Friday, as President Donald Trump and executives announced that Google would offer a website to help people determine whether they needed tests and retailers would set up drive-through testing in parking lots.
Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Walmart Inc (WMT.N), Target Corp (TGT.N) and drugstore owner CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) all closed up more than 9%, in line with the broad stock market, though Alphabet dropped 2% after hours.
Pressure has been rising on U.S. officials to increase and improve testing for the fast-spreading virus, which has reached almost every U.S. state and infected more than 1,660 people in the country.
“I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website, it’s gonna be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location,” Trump said.
Reporting by Chris Sanders, Makini Brice and Diane Bartz in Washington and Paresh Dave and Peter Henderson in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Richard Chang and Rosalba O'Brien
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-google/google-walmart-join-u-s-effort-to-speed-up-coronavirus-testing-idUSKBN21036R?il=0
And now think about this..................this is just outrageous............................so that corporations stock go up....................why not invest in the NIH.............................
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/national-institutes-health-would-see-7-cut-2021-under-white-house-plan
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