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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by tic_tac on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:13PM (#22560605)
You can't just conjure the necessary tests up from nothing. Japan has also had problems with testing. No one is trying to "deny testing". It is a work in progress and is indeed ramping up.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by paulmd on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:44PM (#22560946)
The WHO actually had tests that worked. CDC refused those and chose to independently redevelop their own. Then those didn't work, they still kept trying, while also blocking states from using their own tests that also worked.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...

The states with "local outbreaks" (NY, CA, WA) are the ones that told the CDC to get bent and did it anyway. It's everywhere, the states with low case numbers just aren't testing for it.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-...

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by Loughla on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:17PM (#22561281)
>The states with "local outbreaks" (NY, CA, WA) are the ones that told the CDC to get bent and did it anyway. It's everywhere, the states with low case numbers just aren't testing for it.

This is what I can't get people around me to understand.

No cases near me simply means no one has been tested for it at this point.

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by whatshisface on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:16PM (#22560627)
The FDA had a ban on tests outside of the CDC's tiny supply for a long time. That's whats being referred to by "denying testing." Not a political issue so much as a typical bureaucratic slowdown with very real consequences.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by tic_tac on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:19PM (#22560672)
The comment I replied to was saying that the lack of testing was indeed a political issue with one side at fault.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by inferiorhuman on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#22563959)
It is insofar as the FDA and CDC are controlled by the president and both agencies could make emergency exceptions.

On a phone call the day after the C.D.C. and F.D.A. had told Dr. Chu to stop, officials relented, but only partially, the researchers recalled. They would allow the study’s laboratories to test cases and report the results only in future samples. They would need to use a new consent form that explicitly mentioned that results of the coronavirus tests might be shared with the local health department.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by roenxi on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:09PM (#22561766)
Not a political issue? The FDA having the power to ban things known to be a good idea sounds exactly like a political issue. A pretty serious one - excessive government regulation magnifying the effect of a crisis.
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Re:Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in m... by icedchai on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:44PM (#22561523)
Testing is, indeed, ramping up: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing-in-us.html

The problem is it's ramping up to where it should've been weeks (months?) ago. We're way behind.

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