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You can offer people $10 to get tested -- if the tests don't exist, what difference will this make? Where ARE all the tests, anyway?
by 98codes 7y ago
You can offer people $10 to get tested -- if the tests don't exist, what difference will this make? Where ARE all the tests, anyway?
- josephorjoe 7y agoSouth Korea...
- chvid 7y agoChina recently gave a bunch of test-kits to Italy ... maybe you can talk to them?
- crispyporkbites 7y agoWhat do you mean the tests don't exist? The most common test uses nasal swabs and the Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) technique. Millions have been tested globally and thousands in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/testing.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/testing.html In the UK the NHS will drop a kit off at your house if you call up and say you have the symptons. In the UK you will soon be able to buy them directly for £40 online: https://www.drandrews.co.uk/covid-19-corona-virus-self-test-kit-c-24-p-177 https://www.drandrews.co.uk/covid-19-corona-virus-self-test-...
- unlinked_dll 7y agoThere's two steps here, getting material from people who may be infected and analyzing it to check. The US is bottlenecked by the latter, we haven't mobilized our labs. Frankly if they wanted to get more tests out faster they should be getting university labs mobilized. Conferences are already on hiatus for presenting research, get the researchers who aren't focused on medicine but capable of preparing lab results working on it.