US isn't 'remotely prepared' to test for coronavirus, experts say

Dumb fuck.

16,000 from the common flu in the USA, and no one freaked out.

Several THOUSAND people already have contracted the virus in the US, you government shill.


Here's tree fiddy to go towards a respirator.

Have you personally tested them? Oh you haven’t? So your just going off of some internet source. Got it. The internet is always right it never lies I understand.

CDC states that their tests are failing and that they are WORKING ON new testing methods.

People, we are not testing for this in the USA right now. It is the ONLY reason that we are not seeing new reported cases.

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"IRR began distribution of the test kits to states, but shortly thereafter performance issues were identified related to a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents which led to laboratories not being able to verify the test performance. CDC is remanufacturing the reagents with more robust quality control measures. New tests will be distributed once this issue has been addressed. CDC continues to perform initial and confirmatory testing."

It may not really be a "reagent" issue. The whole design may be faulty?

The only testing being done now is in labs. Samples being shipped to labs and waiting days for results.

Apparently there are only five states with labs set up to do this testing.

I mean WTF! This has to be priority #1

It's really disappointing that authorities are not talking about this, instead touting low numbers of cases, talking about what a great job everyone's doing etc.

All the other countries obviously have accurate and plentiful test kis...why not get ours from THEM?

That's not what the Livescience article linked in the OP says.

"In early February, the CDC sent testing kits to labs across the U.S., but a glitch in the kits made them unusable. Now, more than a month later, just five state health departments — in California, Illinois, Nebraska, Nevada and Tennessee — as well as the CDC, have the ability to test for the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2."

"As the new coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, the rush to test for the virus has taken on a new urgency. But the United States is lagging on that front, in part due to faulty test kits and strict regulations, experts told Live Science.

"We're not remotely prepared," Dr. Alex Greninger, an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and an assistant director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the University of Washington Medical Center, told Live Science."

That's not what the Livescience article linked in the OP says.

"In early February, the CDC sent testing kits to labs across the U.S., but a glitch in the kits made them unusable. Now, more than a month later, just five state health departments — in California, Illinois, Nebraska, Nevada and Tennessee — as well as the CDC, have the ability to test for the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2."

"As the new coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, the rush to test for the virus has taken on a new urgency. But the United States is lagging on that front, in part due to faulty test kits and strict regulations, experts told Live Science.

"We're not remotely prepared," Dr. Alex Greninger, an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and an assistant director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the University of Washington Medical Center, told Live Science."

You were never very good at mathematics in school, were you?