Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:17 AM

Are They Fn Kidding Us? key testing component is in short supply!

Reporting a key testing component is in short supply.

Heres the news. Too upset to add to it

A new shortage of a key testing component is hobbling the U.S. battle against COVID-19 as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to rise.

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In some cases, the shortage has prompted lab personnel to borrow components from colleagues who were using similar kits for testing unrelated to COVID-19, said Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard University epidemiologist.

The extent of the problem could not immediately be determined.

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/03/11/coronavirus-covid-19-response-hurt-by-shortage-testing-components/5013586002/

And oh btw Harvard is vacating campus on Sunday.

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Are They Fn Kidding Us? key testing component is in short supply! (Original post)	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	OP
K&R, China reported CV19 genetic sequence on Jan 12!! We still don't have WHO's mass test kits !!	uponit7771	Mar 2020	#1
Impeachable offense	lagomorph777	Mar 2020	#2
Yes, this is complete BS they are doing everything they can	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#3
Yep, on purpose bluer areas get greatest infections and can't vote ... Red Don wins election.	uponit7771	Mar 2020	#4
I am in Florida and we are about to have a huge catastrophe on	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#6
Censoring. Is it possible	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#7
I don't know if that's what he is/will use, but it is happening.	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#8
My adult child & family live with me in my home	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#11
It's happening everywhere, they are suceeding with this BS.	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#14
Yes. A dark moment in history. There is hope this fall. ✨✨🙏✨✨	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#16
I know and I hope so. Hang in there.	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#17
This site will reportedly keep track of the coronavirus in real time:	Eyeball_Kid	Mar 2020	#13
Wow, thank you. I follow BNO and Worldometer. I had	dewsgirl	Mar 2020	#15
The data from two sources don't match?	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#18
Do you have any links to name of the company?	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#5
There's a story indialantic or slate about why the tests are so late to get to us	uponit7771	Mar 2020	#19
Yea, bad test kits at the start used up the reagent	avlbeerfan	Mar 2020	#9
A little more from the article:	Mike 03	Mar 2020	#10
Thank you. So dismayed 😩	OhNo-Really	Mar 2020	#12
Don the Con said you could get beautiful perfect tests if needed	malaise	Mar 2020	#20

Response to OhNo-Really (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:19 AM

uponit7771 (74,764 posts)

1. K&R, China reported CV19 genetic sequence on Jan 12!! We still don't have WHO's mass test kits !!

Because Trump's crony had to make some money off the CDC

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Response to uponit7771 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:22 AM

lagomorph777 (20,994 posts)

2. Impeachable offense

at the very least. People are dying because of this specific piece of corruption. This will not end well for Trump and his cronies.

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Response to uponit7771 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:22 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

3. Yes, this is complete BS they are doing everything they can

to avoid testing. We will be in Italy and Iran situation very soon. I pray I am wrong.

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Response to dewsgirl (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:23 AM

uponit7771 (74,764 posts)

4. Yep, on purpose bluer areas get greatest infections and can't vote ... Red Don wins election.

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Response to uponit7771 (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:31 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

6. I am in Florida and we are about to have a huge catastrophe on

our hands here, the longer they try to ignore it, the worse it will get.
I think what's happening is, there aren't necessarily more cases in blue states, they are fighting harder for tests, social distancing measures.
I don't think for a second, hotspots won't begin popping up in red states, they will do everything they can to censor that, they already are.

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Response to dewsgirl (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:41 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

7. Censoring. Is it possible

Trump can threaten $$ withholding if Governors aggressively test & report?

Or dangle other threats?

Didn’t Ukraine impeachment grounds expose his modus operandi?

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Response to OhNo-Really (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:44 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

8. I don't know if that's what he is/will use, but it is happening.

Maybe I am wrong, I certainly hope I am.

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Response to dewsgirl (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:51 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

11. My adult child & family live with me in my home

Because “no cases” reported near here, they have a false sense of security.

It is frustrating.

Please be safe. I do worry about Florida the most. And islands

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Response to OhNo-Really (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:01 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

14. It's happening everywhere, they are suceeding with this BS.

They are making things far worse by doing this, I'm sure you knew that.
I followed politics before only here and there, but when he was elected, I instictively knew it would lead to something unbelievably horrible.😔

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Response to dewsgirl (Reply #14)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:09 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

16. Yes. A dark moment in history. There is hope this fall. ✨✨🙏✨✨

It’s helpful to have a forum like DU to keep us grounded

I’m losing sleep not good & bp rising. Too many suffering on earth

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Response to OhNo-Really (Reply #16)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:12 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

17. I know and I hope so. Hang in there.

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Response to dewsgirl (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:00 AM

Eyeball_Kid (5,813 posts)

13. This site will reportedly keep track of the coronavirus in real time:

https://ncov2019.live

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Response to Eyeball_Kid (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:06 AM

dewsgirl (14,485 posts)

15. Wow, thank you. I follow BNO and Worldometer. I had

never seen this, I like the breakdowns and the recovery percentages. Most here have been sharing the Johns Hopkins site., which is great on my tablet, laptop, computer, etc., but on my phone not so much..its hard for me to read and I almost exclusively use my phone.

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Response to Eyeball_Kid (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:26 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

18. The data from two sources don't match?

This was published in the New York Times today.

Link to tweet

Also this from a front line Italian Doctor

“...you see the diagnosis, which is always the damned same:

bilateral interstitial pneumonia.

This is what CoronaVirus is diagnosed as.

How many deaths reported this year as BIP?

Who would have a centralized record?

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Response to uponit7771 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:25 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

5. Do you have any links to name of the company?

Time to rewatch V

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Response to OhNo-Really (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 01:16 PM

uponit7771 (74,764 posts)

19. There's a story indialantic or slate about why the tests are so late to get to us

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Response to OhNo-Really (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:45 AM

avlbeerfan (52 posts)

9. Yea, bad test kits at the start used up the reagent

So i guess they have made what they can make with the reagent at hand.
Reagent comes from China just like the antibiotics used to treat the secondary bacterial infection after the viral.
Lets see what happens then.

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Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:48 AM

Mike 03 (16,492 posts)

10. A little more from the article:

Some of the testing components are manufactured by Qiagen, a multinational leader in molecular testing headquartered in Germany. Spiking demand for its products has prompted the company to increase production to three shifts a day, seven days a week, at plants in Germany and Spain.

"This now is an unprecedented situation," said Qiagen corporate spokesman Thomas Theuringer. "Demand is exploding, especially in the United States ... and this is stretching our capacity."

The Centers for Disease Control is looking into the shortage, CDC Director Robert Redfield told Politico on Tuesday. “I’m confident of the actual test that we have, but as people begin to operationalize the test, they realize there’s other things they need to do the test, said Redfield.

Michael Mina, a Harvard professor of epidemiology, tweeted Monday that the testing components are critical.

It sounds like other countries planned ahead and most have the necessary components, but not the United States.

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Response to Mike 03 (Reply #10)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:56 AM

OhNo-Really (3,552 posts)

12. Thank you. So dismayed 😩

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Response to OhNo-Really (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 01:18 PM

malaise (225,590 posts)

20. Don the Con said you could get beautiful perfect tests if needed

but I don't think they're needed because Mr. Only I can fix it promised a miracle so just hang on in there baby.

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