Telling the truth shouldn't require an act of bravery.

[JWBooth]

Sick People Across the U.S. Say They Are Being Denied the Coronavirus Test
Sick People Across the U.S. Say They Are Being Denied the Coronavirus Test

BOSTON — First came the tickle in the throat. Then, a hacking cough. Then, a shortness of breath she had never experienced before. Hillary King, a 32-year-old consultant in Boston who lives down the street from a hotel where dozens of Biogen executives contracted the new coronavirus, decided that she had better get tested.

But getting tested is far easier said than done, even as testing slowly ramps up nationwide. Five days after President Trump announced that anyone who wants a test can get a test, Ms. King’s experience shows how difficult it can be in the United States to find out if you have the coronavirus.

Many who fear they have the virus have faced one roadblock after another as they try to get tested, according to interviews with dozens of people across the country.

Some have been rejected because they had no symptoms, even though they had been in proximity to someone who tested positive. Others were told no because they had not traveled to a hot spot abroad, even though they had fevers and hacking coughs and lived in cities with growing outbreaks. Still others were told a bitter truth: There simply were not enough tests to go around.

More fear mongering..................the slow BS start of Atlanta slowed the test kits.........public labs are getting involved and the test kits are getting out better now..........

DENIED ............well yeah if te test kits aren't available...........DUH

If they appear to be prepared then there is no opportunity to run to the hill begging for additional funding.

 

[berg80]

Where is this MAGIC LAND that had VAST NUMBERS OF TEST KITS.

There was ample time for the US to ramp production of test kits. It didn't happen. Ultimately, it's no one's fault but Don's.

 

[berg80]

"The failures weren’t by any means the CDC’s alone. The FDA did not immediately trigger a regulatory workaround enabling qualified medical centers to roll out tests that they had designed themselves — tests that are now starting to become more widely available.

And the mistakes were not just in testing.

Trump repeatedly boasted of airport screening and travel restrictions — which Azar and other administration leaders touted as aggressive and historic in their scope — but experts told POLITICO that those measures that were far too little, too late, and too focused on China.

“I closed them down very early, against the advice of almost everybody, and we’ve been given rave reviews,” Trump proclaimed to a Fox News audience at a televised town hall this week.

But after the virus started spreading and cases popped up outside China, the U.S. policy did not immediately change.

Other failures appear to have been related to a lack of preparation within agencies that spanned administrations but certainly continued through the first three years of Trump’s tenure."
How testing failures allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S.