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The CDC screwed up the tests all by themselves, even the final primers they are using are questionable. Combined with the FDA blocking local labs from testing b
by zaroth 7y ago
The CDC screwed up the tests all by themselves, even the final primers they are using are questionable. Combined with the FDA blocking local labs from testing based on bad regulations, the government screwed up the initial response just fine without any help from Trump.
Trump says anyone who wants to be tested can get tested and the CDC says they just shipped a couple million test kits around the country.
As usual, don’t blame as malice what can be adequately described as incompetence.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> Trump says anyone who wants to be tested can get tested Which was an entirely false claim at the time he said it.
- alasdair_ 7y agoDespite the claims that we would have a million test kits out by last Friday, we don’t have them. Hell, the people in the Kirkland home that is the biggest source of deaths STILL have not all been tested - today they finally got more test kits - 45 test kits for 63 untested patients and dozens of staff. We are being lied to.
- alasdair_ 7y ago>The CDC screwed up the tests all by themselves This was AFTER Trump fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 and completely failed to replace them AND replaced a whole bunch of competent people at the CDC with FAR less competent people, just because they happened to be loyal to him.