U.S. Vice President Mike Pence holds a coronavirus briefing with diagnostic lab CEOs in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2020. Picture taken March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - The United States does not yet have enough coronavirus tests to meet anticipated demand, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday, adding that the Coast Guard has delivered tests to a cruise ship off the coast of California. “We don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate the demand going forward,” Pence said during a visit to a 3M Co plant in Minnesota. “We’re focused very much on a cruise ship just off the California coast today. The Coast Guard delivered a sufficient number of tests for the passengers on that ship.”
“As more Americans take an interest in this or have concerns about this, we want to make sure they have access to the coronavirus test as well and we’ve made real progress on that in the last several days.”
Trump: 'Best prepared country in the world'.
Gong show
Playing with fire.
As We Are All Waking Up From This Illusion Of False Statements Of Mike Pence Saying He Got This & Has No Knowledge of when testing kits will be done n ready. What science is behind this other than 3M That Makes Also Tape For your Painting n Project Needs. Who Owns 3M?
Pathetic. What you would expect from our government.
Person behind the glass had a mask on. But we Average Americans don't need masks? They don't have tests available we definitely need MASKS!
It would be more informative, newsworthy, and true, if the editor put 'Contrary to what he said yesterday,' at the beginning of the lede.
So china is better equipped ?
Y’all should be ashamed
These guys are so bad at their job.
They weren’t CG helicopters
America is unprepared, ill informed and grossly unfunded for this. There’s ONE person to blame for all of this (according to his own tweets). This is why you don’t elect a real estate developer/reality TV show host for the highest office in our nation.
BS - in case you were unaware one state tested nearly 17 - so there
You can tell he’s shitting his pants as he has to dance around the fact that we aren’t prepared and he’s leading the effort.
3M....aren’t they the same company responsible for Doug Ford’s license plate debacle in Ontario? License plates that can’t be seen in the dark!
fda get licensing Primerdesign ncyt it’s a no brainer
They got their job with popularity not ability.
We would be better served if an average used car salesman had been put in charge of the effort.
The 3M makes it look all high tech and science driven🙃
Coast Guard!👍
When does he say Prez is the bestie ever. Did I miss that piece?
Why did VP and CDCgov deny the tests from the WHO? This is such a colossal failure on their parts.
Seriously, does anybody feel safer with this butt plug in charge of anything, much more emphatically a global pandemic? Jesus-fukin-christ.
No test...no numbers....no accountability
The word science over his left shoulder is great irony
Dude looks like me giving a tour trying to answer a visitor’s question I don’t know the answer to
He said “We don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate the demand going forward,' Pence said during a visit to a 3M Co (MMM.N) plant in Minnesota. '. Meaning we will meet future demand as we increase production. Maybe you Biden fans should read the article.
How many test kits are currently available? How many tests have been run? If you don't run the tests then it's easy to say there are only a few cases.
Didn't the President just say the country would have a million test kits by the end of this week?
the price is crazy... to protect the interest of pharmaceutical companies?
His next suggestion will be:
People are sayin'...
Luxury Cruisers enjoy this upon return... killjoy
He is beyond belief
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Who's going to have to pay for these tests. In the UK that question doesn't arise but in the states they have to pay for any treatment even those who have no Insurance.
Getting mixed signals, they just announced they can do 400,000 tests per week. We must be anticipating a significant need.
Guess he doesn't know its a hoax.
Ahhhhhh, but VP, surely thoughts and prayers keep this virus away.... and miracles cure it? And on IMPOTUS's hunch, the morality rate is 1%, not the 3.8% reported by actual scientists?
Bout time their major companies like Bayer start working on that then, eh?
If this doesn't make you realize the U.S. has become a shit hole country what will? What the hell are they doing with our tax money? Oh that's right, we have to build that wall.
Mike Pence Doesn't Know Why He Is Even Vice President. Does Not Have Plan For Anything. Pence Is Also Facing Corruption Charges For Having Participation In Pro Quo Incident. You Know In An Event Like This 3rd In Line Steps In To Avoid Further Distruction Of Our Constitution.
Ohh Trump says the other way! US is well ahead in tackling with corona virus isn't it?
Some people say that China conceals the epidemic, but it seems that the biggest concealment comes from the United States.
Pls ask S. Korea for help!
You just figured this out, Buzz Lightyear?
Is anyone really surprised with IMPEACHED POTUS using his hunches and gut feelings to make decisions. And appointing someone VP who doesn't believe in science to deal with a pandemic. What could go wrong?
Can you shoot a virus, cause we have guns, lots and lots of those.
Trump........strike one ........
better start making them then son.
pharohreturn
EvanLSolomon just to help u out ... Canada is better
Buy them from South Korea, NOW. They have the capacity to produce 200,000 per day. AND theirs work.
Way to go dip💩’s!!! You knew about this months ago before the public and you sat on your hands and did nothing to get ahead or prepared. You cut the CDC funding, dismantled the infectious disease hunters unit, this unpreparedness is solely the Trump administrations fault.
There isn't even enough sanitizer in my state or alcohol over 50% strength we're doomed
So he finally answers the question that was asked of him yesterday
It’s bc y’all didn’t accept the help that we needed.....
After knowing for almost 3 months ago. 🤦♂️
I'll wager right now ChosenBoy is ... furious!
Update today: my state has 300 tests, total. Before I can even order a test, must go through a 5+ step decision tree. If meet criteria, then test must be cleared by epidemiologist. Finally, 3+ day turnaround on test results.
You mean, America doesn't have enough test for all the poor and minorities. One way to make America white again is to hope most minorities die from the virus.
Well that's comforting.
Weird, most other modern countries don't seem to be struggling with this.
I don't know why people are creating so much panic.....? Please, stay calm and let people live without fear 🙏
Yesterday we had plenty. What happened
SteveGrzanich
Are these tests polygraphs? You know, to detect the hoax?
aaaand this is how Vice President Nikki Haley happens
Are we gambling with poll numbers tgerd Pence? Worthless! People will die! You had one job! How did we just wait the tidal wave. Tell the thruth and shame the devil!
hehehe...they thought it was China's only problem. They want help Iran, but they can't help themselves😥🤔
Doesn’t he mean, past demand?
But our positive tests are really low!
Why is every other country in the world able to do this? Are our authorities are that incompetent?
Well Pence is having a group prayer session so that should solve everything
States will create their own and the CDC will just have to accept the results. Tsk tsk.
That’s not what we heard this morning. “US will be able to test 400,000 people for coronavirus by week's end Officials expect to ship additional test kits to cover between 1.5 and 1.7 million people by the end of next week. By REUTERS MARCH 5, 2020
“As more Americans take an interest in this or have concerns about this, we want to make sure they have access to the coronavirus test as well.” Take an interest in this? Like this is a fucking game and it really isn’t life or death for some people
This's the truth.
Obligaron a China a decir cuántos casos tenían con detalles, para atacar así a su economía, ahora en su turno ellos nunca dirán cuántos casos tienen. Los medios olvidaran la epidemia, y justificaran que es 'una gripe más'.
Pence: We had plenty of time to prepare for this but we really don’t care if people get sick or die.
Why Trump ha FAILED at America first!!!!
We knew Pence would fail
He has a great mentor!!!
US has 233 confirmed cases now! We might have thousands confirmed cases if the testing kits are available.
Lol, no shit.
Yeah bro we know
Oh? That is not what was promised.
You’re not gonna make the ticket this fall if this keeps up.
We already knew that! The question is why?
Sometimes it doesn't feel like we live in a first world country anymore. South Korea is able to roll out massive large scale testing including drive-thru tests in a matter of weeks, and we're still sitting on our hands pretending to be surprised. So pathetic.
So China has been dealing with this for months before it got here. The US govt didn't think the virus might come to our shores?
Oral questionaires and a designation of suspected Corona Virus (with resulting quarantine) could provide a stop-gap. How incompetent they had two months to prepare.
CLOWN WORLD
Why? How does this happen? South Korea is testing 10s of thousands a day.
What a shit show
Ask your CIA people. They know the solution. Its their created crap anyway.
I thought it was a hoax and ok to work with it?
Sure, because it’s all a Dem hoax, right?
Hell of a job you’re doing realDonaldTrump
Handling this issue perfectly! We have the best tests! The best!
no shit sherlock
What a shame....
They have known since December that the Coronavirus would make it to our shores. Why did they wait so long to order kits
So he lied yesterday.
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