2020.04.18 10:36
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3
A Nature investigation of several university labs certified to test for the virus finds that they have been held up
by regulatory, logistic and administrative obstacles, and stymied by the fragmented US health-care system.
Even as testing backlogs mounted for hospitals in California, for example, clinics were turning away offers of testing
from certified academic labs because they didn’t use compatible health-record software, or didn’t have existing contracts
with the hospital. Researchers warn that if such hurdles remain, labs trying to join the effort to fight coronavirus
might end up spinning their wheels. The United States is now the global epicenter of the pandemic,
with more than 430,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including nearly 15,000 deaths.
Even though the article was posted on April 9, the situation has not been much improved yet.
Without sufficient testing, it is impossible to ease the restrictions as Trump is contemplating.
Besides Trump, the public health system in the U.S. has no strategies on how to fight the enemy, the virus.
I mean all "novel infectious agents". The U.S. health care system is nothing but a huge enterprise,
money making machine. Trump is not fighting the enemy, but campaigning for his throne.
2020.04.18 11:18
2020.04.18 13:00
Last night I called a friend of mine who is working at the prison in California. He is a physician. He has not
been working for a month. Twenty five prisoners are contracted COVID 19. He said that he
was not provided with protective equipment at all. They have not tested all the prisoners. Nor
employees. I am not an epidemiologist or infectious disease specialist, but I thought they should
test all the inmates and employees and quarantine the patients. And one can tract down the origin of the
infection. That's the real mitigation. As you know, California is doing best in the U.S.. How it would be
in other states! That's why we have over 700,000 contracted and 30.000 died. In Korea, they test, trace,
isolate and treat. There were 8 new patients in Korea last 24 hours.
2020.04.18 13:15
How South Korea did it)
Korea and other countries)
2020.04.19 00:11
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html
(Nursing homes are death pits)
One in 5 death are long term facility residence in US.
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/15/federal-prisons-coronavirus/
(Coronavirus in US prison)
How the hell the prison system officials know what to do with the virus?
2020.04.19 07:48
https://news.joins.com/article/23757864?cloc=joongang-home-newslistleft
맹물도 코로나 양성” 불량 키트로 미 CDC 74년 명성 추락
[출처: 중앙일보] “맹물도 코로나 양성” 불량 키트로 미 CDC 74년 명성 추락
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-testing-needs-to-be-widely-done-before-economy-reopens.html
The US economy can’t reopen without widespread coronavirus testing.
Getting there will take a lot of work and money.