Gates Foundation to help with coronavirus testing in Seattle [View all]
SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will begin offering home-testing kits for people in the Seattle area for the new coronavirus in the coming weeks.
The Seattle Times reports in a story on Sunday that it’s not clear when the project will launch, but it’s ramping up as quickly as possible. Seattle has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, with 14 deaths linked to a Seattle-area nursing home.
People who think they’ve been infected can fill out a questionnaire online and request a test kit if their symptoms are consistent with the illness the virus causes. The kits will be delivered within two hours and include nose swabs.
The samples will be sent to a lab at the University of Washington for testing, and results should be available in a few days. The home-testing kits mean people won’t have to go to a doctor’s office and possibly infect other people.
https://www.heraldnet.com/northwest/gates-foundation-to-help-with-coronavirus-testing-in-seattle/
Now watch some Repukes say this shows how the private sector can handle this better than the government.
To me it's not a case of private vs. government but rather those who have the competence are the ones who will solve the problem.
The Republicans in the Federal government are poster children for incompetence.
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