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skip fox

(19,359 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:08 AM Mar 2020

For Chr*st's sake, BUY TESTS from the W.H.O. or China already!!

I know it's late and I know it would reflect badly on our administration's response, but let's stop screwing around! If we cannot impede this, we're all screwed (market, hospital capacities, etc.)

The kits sent to California yesterday were missing reagents for testing.

Billions thrown about when several million would purchase the kits for elsewhere.

Are we supposed to die/go into recession/break the health care system all so Trump can save face?

FINE. Let's tell him he won and then go buy the kits elsewhere.

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For Chr*st's sake, BUY TESTS from the W.H.O. or China already!! (Original Post) skip fox Mar 2020 OP

Dick Durbin is on AMJoy discussing this right now n/t malaise Mar 2020 #1

I posted about this earlier in the week. I was wondering if our Governors MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #2

From what I understand bamagal62 Mar 2020 #3

malaise

(268,993 posts)

1. Dick Durbin is on AMJoy discussing this right now n/t

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:10 AM

Mar 2020

MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts)

2. I posted about this earlier in the week. I was wondering if our Governors

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:15 AM

Mar 2020

can order the test kits directly from WHO or other governments until our government gets it shit together?

bamagal62

(3,257 posts)

3. From what I understand

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 10:22 AM

Mar 2020

The testing kits are not the problem. It’s the labs. Governor Cuomo said in his press conference that they are restricting what labs can read the tests. He said they had 5 labs in NYC alone that could do it, but they weren’t allowed. Hopefully, that’s changed now. But, I have no idea. (Feel free to correct me if I have my info wrong!)

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