machpo
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So the red dot on my forehead is just a retinal scanner to confirm who I am before they hand out my dollars?
So the red dot on my forehead is just a retinal scanner to confirm who I am before they hand out my dollars?
We are starting to catch up quickly now but we were behind everyone for at least a month or more.
As of Mid march the US was last in the entire world in testing per capita, and by a decent margin in a lot of cases, as well as total number of tests performed.
One chart shows how many coronavirus tests per capita have been completed in 8 countries. The US is woefully behind.
Now do the other 6 countries that still lead us in testing!Society difference. Ever been to the RoK? I lived there for over two years and my daughter was born in Seoul.
The RoK doesn’t have a conception of martial law. Their Army is everywhere. They simply just had their Army, which is huge, and set up screening sites.
Also, the majority of the country is mountainous. Millions live stacked up in the valleys. One checkpoint can screen a lot of people.
From Politco:
On Saturday Jan. 11 — a month and a half before the first Covid-19 case not linked to travel was diagnosed in the United States — Chinese scientists posted the genome of the mysterious new virus, and within a week virologists in Berlin had produced the first diagnostic test for the disease.
Soon after, researchers in other nations rolled out their own tests, too, sometimes with different genetic targets. By the end of February, the World Health Organization had shipped tests to nearly 60 countries.
Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate health committee, who represents the hard-hit state of Washington, asked in a 3½-page letter on the testing fiasco to Pence, Health Secretary Alex Azar, CDC director Robert Redfield, and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
So far, none has been provided.
Now do the other 6 countries that still lead us in testing!
Now do the other 6 countries that still lead us in testing!
Right, because the operating assumption is that that virus has been spreading so long untested, that the efficacy of testing+isolation can no longer be counted on.Right now we are in a phase where everyone is to assume you have it. Testing isn't even the most important issue right now. You can only physically do so many tests in a given day.
You’re talking to a guy who’s been prepping for this since late January. I even posted here at that time that corona was going global. You’ll get no argument from me that we should have been doing more all along, including a total travel ban.Action that will still be shown as ineffective and far too late to make a difference as the number of cases in the US starts to balloon past other contries, much like you see now.
Society difference. Ever been to the RoK? I lived there for over two years and my daughter was born in Seoul.
The RoK doesn’t have a conception of martial law. Their Army is everywhere. They simply just had their Army, which is huge, and set up screening sites.
Also, the majority of the country is mountainous. Millions live stacked up in the valleys. One checkpoint can screen a lot of people.
The WHO supplied the world with test kits almost 2 months ago. Every other country had the capacity to test at higher rates than we did for over a month (as the virus spread in the US during that time).
Other countries were testing anyone with symptoms. Testing thousands a day in some cases, while we only tested a few thousand total over a period of numerous weeks.
People going to the hospital and doctors office with COVID19 symptoms couldn’t even get tests approved (read all the stories from doctors, nurses, patients, etc). I just listened to mark poloncarz press conference today where he said we still can’t test at a high capacity. Sounds like hopefully we will be able to in a couple days though.
Two months ago the WHO was parroting the Chinese view that corona might not even be transmittable person to person.The WHO supplied the world with test kits almost 2 months ago. Every other country had the capacity to test at higher rates than we did for over a month (as the virus spread in the US during that time).
Other countries were testing anyone with symptoms. Testing thousands a day in some cases, while we only tested a few thousand total over a period of numerous weeks.
People going to the hospital and doctors office with COVID19 symptoms couldn’t even get tests approved (read all the stories from doctors, nurses, patients, etc). I just listened to mark poloncarz press conference today where he said we still can’t test at a high capacity. Sounds like hopefully we will be able to in a couple days though.
Italy is a 3rd world country?The WHO does not supply the United States with Test Kits. They never offered. They never do. WHO supplies 3rd world countries with test kits.
The WHO supplied the world with test kits almost 2 months ago. Every other country had the capacity to test at higher rates than we did for over a month (as the virus spread in the US during that time).
Other countries were testing anyone with symptoms. Testing thousands a day in some cases, while we only tested a few thousand total over a period of numerous weeks.
People going to the hospital and doctors office with COVID19 symptoms couldn’t even get tests approved (read all the stories from doctors, nurses, patients, etc). I just listened to mark poloncarz press conference today where he said we still can’t test at a high capacity. Sounds like hopefully we will be able to in a couple days though.
Two months ago the WHO was parroting the Chinese view that corona might not even be transmittable person to person.
When Trump banned flights from China, the WHO said such restrictions were unnecessary.
In short, f*** the WHO and the morons who run it.
Italy is a 3rd world country?
Sorry all, I don’t want to derail this thread any more than I already have. I’ll stop this discussion here. My apologies.
No.. but they may not have had the means to.
"No discussions occurred between WHO and the CDC about providing tests to the United States, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told CNN on Tuesday, and WHO did not offer coronavirus tests to the CDC.
The United States, Jasarevic confirmed, doesn't ordinarily rely on WHO for tests because the US typically has the capacity to manufacture its own diagnostics"
"During CNN's coronavirus town hall last week, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked the United States' top infectious disease doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, if the US should have used the WHO coronavirus tests.
"If you look back and Monday morning quarterback it would have been nice to have had a backup," said Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "But what the CDC has done over many, many years when we have things like this is to develop their own test, which is always really a good test, and to roll it out in a way ... where they give it to departments of public health."