Bisbee wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:54 pm
Borris Johnson was released from the hospital today. He publicly thanked and praised the NHS doctors and nurses for saving his life from Covid-19.
45 also needs to have such a come to jesus moment. But of course the US has no socialized medicine system to heap praises upon.
Yes, BoJo was discharged and is recovering at the PMs country residence Chequers (like our Camp David). He praised the National Health Service and in particular two nurses, one from New Zealand and one from Portugal who watched over him for a critical 48 hours.
Yes, the lack of testing at the start and even today is embarrassing. Abbott came out with their 15 minute COVID-19 test that is FDA approved, but it still hasn't rolled out nationally. The test uses the existing testing units that facilities currently use to test for seasonal influenza and there are over 18,000 units nationwide but Abbott is slow at getting them converted for COVID-19 testing. And with so many new tests being approved by FDA, we don't have testing data on their false positives and false negatives. A case in an LA paper pointed out a 39 yr old elected official in the metro area who is fighting for his life in an ICU with COVID-19, even though he initially tested negative to the virus.
CDC had a plan for mass testing and never followed it.
A weeks-long testing delay that effectively blinded public health officials to the spread of the coronavirus in the US might have been avoided had federal agencies fully enacted their own plan to ramp up testing during a national health crisis.
The plan, which is spelled out in an April 2018 agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and three of the biggest associations involved in lab testing, called for boosting the capacity of public health labs, bringing big commercial labs into the testing process early, and making sure labs would have whatever they needed to mount a rapid, large-scale response. But over January and February, agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services not only failed to make early use of the hundreds of labs across the United States, they enforced regulatory roadblocks that prevented non-government labs from assisting, according to documents obtained by CNN, and interviews with 14 scientists and physicians at individual laboratories and national laboratory associations.
When the CDC stumbled out of the blocks in early February, releasing a flawed test that took it weeks to correct, labs across the country had been effectively sidelined. Many public health labs were waiting for the revised CDC tests, while commercial and clinical labs were barred from conducting their own tests unless they went through a complex, slow process of applying for their own "emergency use authorization" from the US Food and Drug Administration. As a result, the government squandered a critical month during which aggressive and widespread testing might greatly have reduced the speed and scale of the pandemic.
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