Trump announces plan to deploy 150 million Covid rapid tests previously touted

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Source: CNN

President Donald Trump formally announced a plan on Monday to disperse the 150 million rapid coronavirus tests first promoted by the White House in August.

The White House originally billed the deal to obtain tests, which are made by Abbott Laboratories, as a potential game-changer to battle the coronavirus pandemic. But without detailed federal guidance on how to distribute the tests, states and cities remained divided, and some of them stifled, on how to best to use those types of rapid tests and others for the testing technique known as "screening" -- which involves routinely testing people whether or not they have symptoms.

Announcing the distribution plan Monday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, Trump claimed the testing effort would "allow every state on a very regular basis test every teacher who needs it."

"I'm pleased to report we're announcing our plan to distribute 150 million Abbott point of care tests in the coming weeks," Trump said in the Rose Garden on Monday.



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Facing re-election Donny finally decides to get off his dead ass and do what should have been done eight months ago. How many people would be alive if he did so then?

[sarcasmo]

1. Murderer is a day late and a Billion dollars short.

[soothsayer]

2. Those "coming weeks" never come

[Ahpook]

3. Whatever

I thought covid was fake news?

So tired of this

[truthisfreedom]

4. Hey, in two weeks he'll have a health care plan!

[rainin]

5. "Mr pResident, you announced that you will be rolling out testing in the next days or weeks.

Will that be before or after you roll out the health care plan you promised 4 years ago?"

[Sucha NastyWoman]

6. Do we trust his tests results?

[gab13by13]

9. I read somewhere

that these Abbott tests aren't that great.

[SunSeeker]

14. They're awful. They have a 50% false negative rate. Great way to spread Covid-19!

https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-test-problems-grow-fda-standards-on-covid-tests-under-fire/

[JudyM]

7. Beginning of the second paragraph's 1st sentence is missing, FYI

[klook]

8. What happened to "Will you please slow down the testing?"

[DURHAM D]

10. So I assume that Abbott Labs has paid the Trump Organization

millions of dollars for their promotional help and paid Ivanka $500K in consulting fees to get this government contract.


Meanwhile, aren't these the tests that report false negatives all of the time?

[SunSeeker]

16. Looks like they paid someone for the FDA approval.

How else do you explain FDA approval of a test with up to a 50% false negative rate?

https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-test-problems-grow-fda-standards-on-covid-tests-under-fire/

[C Moon]

11. The day before the first debate.

[tirebiter]

12. They are available to governors with a quid pro quo

Schools and businesses must be totally opened up.

[Grasswire2]

13. those are the tests that are less accurate.

They have a high false negative result.

[SunSeeker]

15. How the fuck did these Abbott rapid tests win FDA approval with up to a 50% false negative rate?

In mid-May, the Food and Drug Administration issued a rare public warning about an Abbott Laboratories COVID-19 test that for weeks had received high praise from the White House because of its speed: Test results could be wrong.

The agency at that point had received 15 “adverse event reports” about Abbott’s ID NOW rapid COVID test suggesting that infected patients were wrongly told they did not have the coronavirus, which had led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. The warning followed multiple academic studies showing higher “false negative” rates from the Abbott device, including one from New York University researchers who found it missed close to half of the positive samples detected by a rival company’s test.

But then, in a move that confounded lab officials and other public health experts, a senior FDA official later that month said coronavirus tests provided outside lab settings would be considered useful in fighting the pandemic even if they miss 1 in 5 positive cases — a worrisome failure rate.

The FDA has now received a total of 106 reports of adverse events for the Abbott test, a staggering increase. The agency has not received a single adverse event report for any other point-of-care tests meant to diagnose COVID-19, an agency spokesperson said.

https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-test-problems-grow-fda-standards-on-covid-tests-under-fire/

[EarthFirst]

17. ...anyone else read that as "destroy" COVID tests?

I initially thought; “well that’s par for the course...”

[not_the_one]

18. Of course they will all come back negative. Or at least a huge majority of the results would.

Because that would make HIM look good. At least that is what HE thinks, in his twisted, yet totally predictable, mind.