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UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 09:55 AM Mar 2020

What went wrong with the CDC. test kits ... info here

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/13/california-coronavirus-response-schools-disneyland

From this news story ... this paragraph:

California had the capacity to conduct 8,227 tests as of Thursday, Newsom said in a press conference. But many of the testing kits provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were missing the key components to conducts the analyses.

“The test kits do not include in every case the RNA extraction kits, the reagents, the chemicals, the solutions that are components of the broader tests,” he said. “This is imperative that the federal government and labs across the United States, not just state of California, get the benefit of all the ingredients, the components of the test. I am surprised this is not more of the national conversation.”
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What went wrong with the CDC. test kits ... info here (Original Post) UpInArms Mar 2020 OP
Kick - the test kits are missing things that make them work Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 #1
Everything this maladminstration does is criminal UpInArms Mar 2020 #3
Sounds like they shipped out empty boxes mercuryblues Mar 2020 #2
Lying liars UpInArms Mar 2020 #4
Are they shipping them that way everywhere? OR, just California? CousinIT Mar 2020 #5
It appears to have been everywhere UpInArms Mar 2020 #6
This is what happens when you drown the government in its own bathwater. c-rational Mar 2020 #7
Norquist should be so proud of himself UpInArms Mar 2020 #8
"I'm surprised that this is not more of a national conversation" maxrandb Mar 2020 #9
We won't get test kits until Jakes Progress Mar 2020 #10
Donny Six Words says it will go away. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #11

CousinIT

(9,239 posts)
5. Are they shipping them that way everywhere? OR, just California?
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:02 AM
Mar 2020

Trump DESPISES California. Just asking. . . you know . . . for a friend.

maxrandb

(15,322 posts)
9. "I'm surprised that this is not more of a national conversation"
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:34 AM
Mar 2020

Umm... I'm NOT.

To report this, the MSM would have to worry about being labeled as "biassed" or "fake".

I'm actually surprised that the media hasn't gathered a bunch of test kits around a table for a "focus group" where they can tell us how "beautiful, perfect and wonderful" they are, and that the faulty test kits are "just part of the deep state".

Jakes Progress

(11,122 posts)
10. We won't get test kits until
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:42 PM
Mar 2020

some trumping can figure out how to get several hundred million from the taxpayers to provide them. Then they will be of the quality of the electrical service that trumpians promised for Puerto Rico.

No wonder so many are disgusted with capitalism.

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