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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by miketery on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:50PM (#22858743)
We’ve run ~2.9MM tests so far. I think it’s likely testing capacity will get there by mid to late may. Especially if we find cheaper and faster anti body tests (which is a huge focus right now).
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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by ac29 on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:17PM (#22860102)
A bit of context: this is far, far more than any other country - Germany is second with 1.3M tests, and only two other countries have done over a million [0]. Per capita, we're about middle of the pack for well developed countries (excluding very small micro-nations).

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by munk-a on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:05PM (#22858942)
May sounds pretty reasonable up here in Canada - I'm concerned that the US still isn't ramping up production fast enough though. Trump is... and idiot - yea sure whatevers, but right now he's really doing harm by constantly talking about how close to being over this America is - it is causing a lot of companies that could ramp up production to be more conservative since they're worried they might be left with a lot of debt and a lot of unsalable stock.
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