Lawmakers worried overseas military bases lack coronavirus testing kits

[yaesu]

Source: Military Times

Lawmakers are concerned that the military may not have an adequate supply of coronavirus testing kits at military installations deployed overseas, especially in the U.S. Central Command area of operations.
Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat, released a statement following a lack of a response from the Army regarding whether the military had sufficient coronavirus testing kits.
In a letter to defense officials, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, addressed concerns that deployed members of Wisconsin’s Army National Guard to Afghanistan were operating in areas believed to have confirmed cases of COVID-19 and that the unit may not have access to testing kits.

Read more: https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/03/12/congressman-worried-overseas-military-bases-lack-coronavirus-testing-kits/

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this was started by a concerned mother who called a progressive talk show that I was listening to, contacts were made & now this

[onecaliberal]

1. Not many Americans have available tests. That's the entire problem.

Don’t know where it is, where it’s going or anything else important to know without testing.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. The military in the US has the same problem, as do we all

You'd think our Republican "support our troops" people would GAF, but nope.