MarathonMike
Diamond Member
HURRY UP HURRY UP WE NEED A TEST!!!And still, the initial CDC test was flawed, wasting valuable time and no doubt many lives. Should have collaborated with WHO.The decision?? It has been done like that for decades. An example for you-I stand corrected on that point. However, the decision to have the CDC develop their own test didn't work out all that well since the initial test was flawed and wasted valuable testing time.You are a gullible person if you think that.He should have accepted the test kits offered by the WHO. I suspect he was trying to find a way for the Kushner family to profit off this somehow. Trump is a grifter. Always has been.It depends on which Democrats are talking. Turn on the TV and there is no shortage of Democratic mouthpieces blaming Trump for his incompetence. Apparently he was supposed to be able to snap his fingers and have 10 million COVID-19 test kits drop out of the sky. Since he didn't he is directly responsible for the spread and subsequent deaths, so say the mouthpieces. They don't all say it, but you can't claim "Democrats aren't saying that". Maybe you aren't but many of your leaders are.
Yes he is at fault for this. He should have acted sooner and not pretended this was all FAKE NEWS and another DEM HOAX.
Trump is the dumbest dumbass of all dumbasses who have ever lived. Full stop.
PolitiFact - Biden falsely says Trump administration rejected WHO coronavirus test kits (that were never offered)
During Sunday night’s debate, while leveling criticism at President Donald Trump’s handling of the national response to the coronavirus pandemic, former Vice President Joe Biden said the Trump administration refused to get coronavirus testing kits from the World Health Organization.
“Look, the World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them. We did not want to get them from them. We wanted to make sure we had our own,” Biden said.
A similar claim about WHO test kits has also been circulating on Facebook.
The Biden campaign referred us to a Politico article that said the WHO shipped coronavirus tests to nearly 60 countries at the end of February, but the U.S. was not among them. That is technically correct, but it suggests that the United States would have been on the list under any circumstances.
The countries WHO helped are ones that lack the virology lab horsepower that exists across the United States. The outreach work by the Pan American Health Organization is a case in point...
The group said it focused most of its efforts on "countries with the weakest health systems."
"No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States," said WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris. "This is consistent with experience since the United States does not ordinarily rely on WHO for reagents or diagnostic tests because of sufficient domestic capacity."
According to interviews with several infectious disease experts, Biden’s statement leaves out key context regarding how different countries decided on which test they’d use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.
CDC Laboratory Testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
CDC works closely with state and local public health departments, travel industry partners, and others to identify and test people who may be infected with MERS-CoV. CDC conducts several different laboratory tests to detect MERS-CoV infection.
In general, these lab tests fall into two categories:
[paste:font size="5"]Emergency Use Authorization because there are no FDA-cleared/approved tests available for this purpose in the United States.
- Molecular tests, which look for evidence of active infection; and
- Serology tests, which look for previous infection by detecting antibodies to MERS-CoV. Serology tests are for surveillance or investigational purposes and not for diagnostic purposes.
sooo, if anything Trump made sure that was changed when it was realized for corona virus.
COME ON WE"RE DYING!!!!!
oh the test is flawed?
YOU IDIOTS YOU SHOULD HAVE WAITED FOR THE WHO!!!!!