Coronavirus: COVID-19

Lisnaholic · 03-13-2020, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I feel like there’s been a lack of testing partly because Trump wanted to keep the numbers low.

^ Yep, and partly because:-
"In 2018 the Trump administration fired the government's entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House infrastructure."

( Source: Rachel Maddow on an article in FP, whatever that may be. )

A global comparison of testing rates per million that I looked at showed the US sharing the bottom slot with Vietnam and Turkey. Other countries were doing a better job - some with rates ten times better, others a hundred times better.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The local news here just ran a story that it’s impossible to get tested locally.

They said the health department says go to your local physician and physicians are saying go to the health department. The reporter recorded the calls to prove the runaround. Then they had a Skype interview with a woman who looked really sick saying she’s been self isolating for two weeks and has been trying to get tested but can’t. She’s just locked up in her apartment alone trying to be responsible.

^ Scares the hell out of me, as I can see me in this position all too easily.

@ Plankton: I'm going to be 66 in two weeks; could you ask your nurse friend if she could nudge her "over 65" limit upwards just a little, as a favour to me. I'd appreciate it.