COVID-19 testing on rise but still far below level recommended for safe re-opening

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An average of 550,000 COVID-19 tests are being conducted every day nationwide, but that's still not enough for a safe re-opening, experts say.

in Tulsa, Oklahoma that he has reservations about increased testing.

"Here's the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases," Trump said."So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'"Last week, Anthony Fauci, the top infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, he was not aware of any directive from the White House to slow down testing or contact surveillance which he said were fundamental to"understand exactly what's going on in community spread."'In fact, we will be doing more testing': Fauci says he was never asked to slow coronavirus testing

Giroir told the coronavirus panel Thursday that some 35 million test have been conducted nationwide since the pandemic landed on U.S. shores earlier this year. By fall, testing could reach 40 million to 50 million per month, or more than 1 million a day, he told lawmakers."But with emerging techniques like pooling of samples combined with investments in point-of -care technologies, that number could easily be 80 million available per month if they are needed," he said.

 

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If we tested everyone in the world once a day, it still wouldn’t be enough for some people. 🤷🏽‍♀️

What I can't understand is: There is something they are using to identify the corona virus, Right ? ! ? Why can't this something be introduced into a skin patch. That way you wouldn't need a piece of paper that says you are NOT positive, you could SEE it ! !

GovRonDeSantis In Florida we are losing the war to Covid 19. The crisis is out of control as the number of hospitalizations is increasing at an alarming rate Great leadership is badly needed to make sure that Florida is able to stop the spread.

To actually suppress the pandemic in the United States, the Harvard team estimates that we need to perform 4.3 million tests per day, about seven times our current level. Source: COVID19Tracking

Says whom?

Only more rioting...errr...protesting will stop this thing!

You need contact tracing and isolation periods in addition to testing .

Same experts said that rioting outweighed the risk of spreading the virus. I think getting back to normal outweighs the risk of spreading the virus.

As if testing is going to stop 65+ citizens from being vulnerable.....

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