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tblue37

(65,269 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:47 PM Mar 2020

A 5-minute corona virus test?

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A 5-minute corona virus test? (Original Post) tblue37 Mar 2020 OP

Great! Now get it out there. TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #1

Imagine if they started this in January. boston bean Mar 2020 #2

Other countries did. Igel Mar 2020 #4

evidently those testing machines are wide spread already in medical offices so just the test msongs Mar 2020 #3

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

1. Great! Now get it out there.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:49 PM

Mar 2020

boston bean

(36,220 posts)

2. Imagine if they started this in January.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:50 PM

Mar 2020

Igel

(35,293 posts)

4. Other countries did.

Reply to boston bean (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 06:55 PM

Mar 2020

We had regulations.

For a while the CDC said it had to test. (All power to the government!) And the CDC flubbed it.

Then it loosened restrictions and said state labs could test. And, if a company could be accredited, a company like Quest or LabCorp could. (More testing, but still ... the CDC had trust and control issues. Like most Americans, these days.)

Then it loosened restrictions and said that if a company could show its test was accurate and safe, it could produce them.

This is, of course, what S. Korea and Iceland did back in January, and the reason that they had such good testing. But nobody wants to say it's because of "big government" or distrust by government of private business.

msongs

(67,381 posts)

3. evidently those testing machines are wide spread already in medical offices so just the test