Ray From Cleveland
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March 28?"As a COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic spread throughout the world in early 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to “test, test, test” for the virus in order to stop it from spreading. WHO officials said the global health organization had provided 1.5 million tests to 120 countries.
“You cannot fight a fire blindfolded,” said WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a March 16 press conference. “And we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected.”
Those tests were AVAILABLE had Trump asked for them
He did not. He instead tried to re-invent the wheel and design new tests that failed spectacularly
March 28th:
SEOUL (Reuters) – Three Korean coronavirus test-kit makers have won preliminary approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), paving the way for kits to be exported to the United States to help it battle the largest outbreak of the virus.
South Korea’s foreign ministry said that winning the preliminary approval under emergency use authorization will allow the products to be sold in the United States.
The ministry did not name the manufacturers or give a time frame in its statement.
U.S. President Donald Trump this week asked his Korean counterpart to supply the medical devices and promised to help Korean firms gain U.S. regulator approval.
A massive testing campaign, coupled with intensive contact tracing, is credited with helping South Korea slow the spread of the disease, whereas the United States has been criticized for a slow response to the virus.
The approval is expected to speed up the ability to test patients in the United States, where critics say the rolling out of tests has been too slow.
Swiss firm Roche has also won Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA for its test kits.
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South Korean coronavirus test kit makers win U.S. FDA pre-approval - Physician's Weekly
By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Three Korean coronavirus test-kit makers have won preliminary approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), paving the way for kits to be exported to the United States to help it battle the largest outbreak of the virus. South Korea's foreign...www.physiciansweekly.com
So it was Trump, and not the FDA??? March 28th was a little over two weeks ago.
Those are not the tests that SK used.
They had their first virus death the day we did and they IMMEDIATELY began aggressive testing.
Well before March 28
Yes they did, and it's the FDA that held up the process--not Trump.