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What 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. Millio
by crispyporkbites 7y ago
What 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.