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US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Swabs from Italy to Tennessee
- robocat 7y agoLike buying potatoes from the Irish during a famine? Swabs are in short supply e.g. I know we have severely limited supplies of swabs in New Zealand. What are the circumstances where supplies absolutely needed for the health of one country (Italy) can be obtained by another country? Or does Italy have a super-abundance of them for some reason? Interested in background.
- tssva 7y agoCopan Italia SPA, one of the largest producers of medical testing swabs, is located in the Lombardy region of Italy. They are evidently capable of producing up 750,000 swabs per day. Copan has stayed open and is producing swabs for use worldwide. I would assume this was a supply purchased from Copan by the US government and then shipped in the most expeditious manner possible.
- robocat 7y agoThanks. I hoped for something like that. A shame the reporter couldn’t find that info...