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FACT CHECK: Testing Not Meeting Demand Despite Trump's Boasts
"We are testing tremendous numbers of people," Trump said. "We're doing tremendous testing."
The reality is that the availability of testing in the United States lags far behind the demand, with some areas limiting testing to only those sick people whose treatment decisions require knowing whether or not they are infected with the coronavirus.
"Since the U.S. still doesn't have enough tests to meet demand, the most immediate action we can take right now is to prioritize who gets tested," a representative of the American Clinical Laboratory Association said about the situation in an email to NPR on Wednesday.Comment
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White House Considers $1 Billion Price Tag for Ventilators — and Has Second Thoughts
A deal with General Motors and Ventec Life Systems to produce tens of thousands of the critical lifesaving devices seemed imminent. Then the announcement was pulled back.
The White House had been preparing on Wednesday to announce amid an escalating pandemic that a joint venture between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems would begin producing as many as 80,000 desperately needed ventilators when word suddenly came down that the announcement was off.
The decision to cancel the announcement, according to government officials, came after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it needed more time to assess whether the estimated cost was prohibitive — more than $1 billion, with several hundred million dollars to be paid upfront to General Motors to retool the car parts plant in Kokomo, Ind., where the ventilators would be made with Ventec’s technology.
The shortage of ventilators has emerged as one of the major criticism of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus. The need to quickly equip hospitals across the country with tens of thousands more of the devices to treat those most seriously ill with the virus was not anticipated despite the Trump administration’s own projection in a simulation last year that millions of people could be hospitalized. And even now, the effort to produce them has been confused and disorganized.Comment
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The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.Comment
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And now from the TOP Climate Change expert:
Greta Thunberg on Coronavirus: 'My Last Cold was Worse than this' - Daily Political Newswire
Greta Thunberg on Coronavirus: 'My Last Cold was Worse than this'
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Obama Admin Allegedly Depleted Federal Stockpile Of N95 Masks, Never Replaced, Reports Say | The Daily Wire
The Obama administration significantly depleted the federal stockpile of N95 respirator masks to deal with the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009 and never rebuilt the stockpile despite calls to do so, according to reports.
If obama would have done his job, we wouldn't be nearly as short-handed on essential supplies!!
It sucks when you inherit someone's failed Policies and failed preparations, but Trump has been turning it all around for the better. Thank God.
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A 'D' list 'actress' making demands?
Kathy Griffin Mouths Off After Hospital Obeys CDC, Tests Medical Workers, 1st Responders Before Her
*** it has been confirmed KG has an intestinal infection not COVID-19**
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