Why? I dont know they think they can patch up shit this later or something I am sure.
The Trump administration is weighing a new testing strategy as coronavirus cases mount: testing groups of people together.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told me in an interview last night that health officials are having "intense discussions" about what's known as "pool testing." The idea is that by testing samples from many people all together, officials could test more people with fewer resources. And those who are infected could be more quickly found and isolated.
The approach works this way: Samples from, say, 20 people are combined into a single pool. One coronavirus test is used on the entire pool. If the test comes back negative, researchers know they can move on to another pool of samples. If it comes back positive, only then would each individual be tested.
"What you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society," Fauci said. "And the only way you know that is by casting a broad net."
Criteria for who can get a test still varies among states, depending on their resources and testing capacity. But if group testing would allow more people to get tested, there could be a better chance of finding the asymptomatic people who may be quietly spreading the disease
Might be what they talk about today. Frankly sounds like something that should have been done months ago to decrease the testing backlog and detect outbreaks quicker.
I would love to see if someone requests a statement regarding this chart from yesterday.
For comparison the EU has a population of 450 million and the US has 330 million.
I like how Pence says we did a good job because if we did nothing 1.2 - 1.5 million people would have died. What an accomplishment.
Yep. It's infuriating to be lied to to our faces.Yeah I like the rewrite of "We were always going to lose 100k, that's what our doctors told us from the get go."
Not watching so not sure what the charts you are referring to are. The deaths have gone way down since the Northeast, Michigan, and Louisiana stopped reporting such high death tolls. Cases are a lagging indicator.
Was that him looking at the numbers and stopping himself from saying them outloud?
This motherfucker just said that it's encouraging that people my age are getting covid.