SUZZY

News flash: DOD just announced it is ready to test tens of thousands a day for c****a v***s --- but haven't been asked. HMMM...

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Who is the DOD and who should be asking?

bggamers Loc: georgia

yea and who should u call????

SUZZY

department of defense

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Who DOD supposed to ask?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Yeah!

woodguru

Where did you see that?

The Seattle lab is ramping up to it's capacity of 8000 a day, every state has labs, and universities have more. Then we have private labs, dozens, including the monster two that the CDC has been banking on doing hundreds of thousands of tests at billions and billions of dollars. The numbers aren't addingup, where is the testing capacity?

And yes, the military has infectious disease labs and does research, part of their mission is biological warfare. Why aren't these resources being fully brought to bear. We are going to need hundreds of thousands of tests being reliably and quickly done a day before this is over, where is this administration so far behind where even South Korea got in a far quicker manner?

This does not surprise me, this is about the testing being kept to two huge labs, other labs are being blocked to give them a chance to come up to speed rather than rely on dozens of labs pulling together. This is about controlling the numbers through secrecy, and hundreds of billions going to two huge companies.

And the military says we are not being asked to help...of course not.

woodguru

Uh...the president, the CDC, use all available resources that can be kicked into gear rather than keep it to the two major CDC labs that have bungled this already with faulty test kits, which by the way I don't believe this for a second, never did. This is really basis stuff.

South Korea made this administration look like clowns as they kicked all of their available labs into gear.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

So what do you believe, since you don't believe this?

bggamers Loc: georgia

he believes anything that puts this country in the gutter really needs to move to somewhere he will be happy

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

South Korea is a tiny Nation with a very concentrated (and much smaller) population...

America is better compared to the EU... How are they doing? That socialized healthcare keeping everyone safe? Sure the open borders policies were effective, no?

Compare apples to apples...

SUZZY

Defense Department ready to test civilians for c****av***s, but hasn't been asked yet, general says
Yahoo News
SEAN D. NAYLOR
Mar 20th 2020 6:26AM

Although Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday that he was making all Defense Department labs available for C****-** testing for civilians, the director of the Defense Health Agency said Thursday that while those labs can perform “tens of thousands” of tests per day, so far nobody has asked them to run any for non-Defense Department personnel.

“At this time we’re only testing [Defense Department] beneficiaries,” Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place said during a press conference for Pentagon reporters that was broadcast via live stream. “We stand ready to support the needs of the country … but at present we have not been asked to add our labs to the myriad labs across the country that have that capability.”

The speed and availability of testing for C****-** has been controversial in the United States, with many patients claiming they were denied tests even after displaying symptoms of the disease. But Place told reporters that his 15 labs had lots of excess capacity.

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“We’ve tested a little bit more than 1,000 across [Defense Department] laboratories and have the capability to do way more than that,” he said. (A Pentagon information sheet distributed Thursday morning stated that the labs had tested a total of 1,574 patients but had a capacity to test 9,096 per day.)

The “current methodology” that the military labs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention use to test for C****-** takes between four and six hours per test to process. The test swabs typically arrive in batches, so “all labs are relatively limited in the speed” at which they can process the tests, Place said. But he expressed hope that the labs’ testing rate might increase soon.


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“The CDC, working with industry, is looking at other methodologies for testing this particular v***s that would take much less time,” he said. “That said, we are far from being overwhelmed in our laboratories.”

There are roughly 1.3 million active-duty servicemembers in the U.S. military, but the reason fewer than 2,000 of them have been tested for C****-** is that the Pentagon “is following CDC guidelines that call for screening potential cases of C****-** prior to conducting a confirmatory lab test,” said Kevin Dwyer, a spokesman for Place, in emailed answers to follow-up questions from Yahoo News. “Health care providers make the decision to test based on exposure risk, symptoms and the CDC guidance. If a patient’s screening shows they meet the requirements for testing, a sample will be taken and the test will be conducted by a [Defense Department] lab.”

“We’re not individually testing everyone,” Place said.

Appearing with Place at the press conference was Navy Surgeon General Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, who said the Navy does not yet have equipment to test sailors for C****-** at sea. However, “samples can and are being sent to shore for testing” at the Defense Department laboratories, he said.

“While awaiting results, symptomatic sailors live in separate quarters where they can maintain appropriate social distancing,” Gillingham said. “We are also actively working to identify and acquire new testing platforms for shipboard diagnostics as they become available.”

The Navy has yet to detect any cases of community t***smission at sea, according to Gillingham. The “very small handful” of sailors assigned to ships who have tested positive for C****-** have done so while the ships were in port, not underway, he said.

“Those individuals have been immediately identified, isolated and, if requiring treatment, they’ve been provided appropriate treatment for their condition,” he said. “We are watching that very carefully.”

LAPhil Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Ghostbusters!

bggamers Loc: georgia

SUZZY

Defense Department ready to test civilians for c****av***s, but hasn't been asked yet, general says
Yahoo News
SEAN D. NAYLOR
Mar 20th 2020 6:26AM

Although Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday that he was making all Defense Department labs available for C****-** testing for civilians, the director of the Defense Health Agency said Thursday that while those labs can perform “tens of thousands” of tests per day, so far nobody has asked them to run any for non-Defense Department personnel.

“At this time we’re only testing [Defense Department] beneficiaries,” Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place said during a press conference for Pentagon reporters that was broadcast via live stream. “We stand ready to support the needs of the country … but at present we have not been asked to add our labs to the myriad labs across the country that have that capability.”



KEEPING NUMBERS LOW -- however testing improving in spite of Trump