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I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. LabCorp and Quest are two of those that are ready. The labs at

I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. LabCorp and Quest are two of those that are ready. The labs at the universities and private companies had to verify the results of the tests they created. It's important to note that no other country has widespread testing either. They simply take spit swabs and test a sample of them from a location. It's a much less precise method, but appropriate in the places where there is a widespread outbreak. The CDC is working with these countries, it's not one country having it together or not. Stop politicizing this.

Symmetry 7y ago
There are some pretty widespread differences in testing between countries. They had done over 140,000 tests on Friday compared to about 500 in the US and were getting the tests turned around much faster between application and result. I don't want to make this political either but US testing has until now been disastrous and we really need to revisit the ways in which CDC, HSS, and FDA policies and regulations interact to prevent this from happening in future crises.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
  Many of the regulations were from previous administrations and have already been rolled back. They have shipped 1.5 million tests out to universities and private labs w/ more being made. They have created a way for 3rd parties to create their own tests. LabCorp and Quest are already up and running. Many others will be ready Monday. I'm just happy the administration shut down traffic from China early on, even though the move was labeled as xenophobic, which is silly. Politicizing is evident when you ignore all the good things and highlight a minor mistake (initial CDC testing limits due to a bad ingredient) I just don't get what this gets you, especially when they are doing the thing you want them to do. I'm not sure what else you'd like to be done.
MarkMc 7y ago
> I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. For those places not ready by Friday, I wonder how much effort was put into being ready by Saturday or Sunday instead of Monday...
- s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
  I'm sure it varies place to place and depends on staffing and budget of each lab. The two biggest ones were up and running Friday.

Symmetry 7y ago

There are some pretty widespread differences in testing between countries. They had done over 140,000 tests on Friday compared to about 500 in the US and were getting the tests turned around much faster between application and result. I don't want to make this political either but US testing has until now been disastrous and we really need to revisit the ways in which CDC, HSS, and FDA policies and regulations interact to prevent this from happening in future crises.

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
Many of the regulations were from previous administrations and have already been rolled back. They have shipped 1.5 million tests out to universities and private labs w/ more being made. They have created a way for 3rd parties to create their own tests. LabCorp and Quest are already up and running. Many others will be ready Monday. I'm just happy the administration shut down traffic from China early on, even though the move was labeled as xenophobic, which is silly. Politicizing is evident when you ignore all the good things and highlight a minor mistake (initial CDC testing limits due to a bad ingredient) I just don't get what this gets you, especially when they are doing the thing you want them to do. I'm not sure what else you'd like to be done.

MarkMc 7y ago

> I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. For those places not ready by Friday, I wonder how much effort was put into being ready by Saturday or Sunday instead of Monday...

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
I'm sure it varies place to place and depends on staffing and budget of each lab. The two biggest ones were up and running Friday.