A DELUGE of tests showing up at LABS!! And it's not just a matter of personnel, they are out of SUPPLIES to process the tests. So we are short ON TESTS and once we have them, we are SHORT on people and materials to process them.
What a clusterfuck people! What a total clusterfuck! The reasons why the U.S. isn’t on track to open up Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies.
Health care workers test patients for coronavirus at a drive-through testing site in Las Vegas. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By DAVID LIM
04/07/2020 06:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump and other officials are boasting that the United States is now testing nearly 700,000 people each week for the coronavirus. But that’s not enough to catch every case of the disease or to provide the kind of data needed to lift social distancing measures and allow people to go back to work. And because testing capacity remains inadequate, it’s unclear when we’ll get there.
Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies. A rapid test described by Trump in mid-March as a “game changer” that would soon be available in doctors offices is still hard to come by for many Americans.
And officials at some public and private labs are questioning the accuracy of new antibody tests that are designed to detect whether a person has ever been infected with the coronavirus — a crucial tool to understand the true scope of the U.S. outbreak. Here’s what’s actually happening with testing right now:
1. We’re testing tens of thousands of people every day — but it’s still not enough
The U.S. has come a long way since the botched rollout of the CDC’s diagnostic test in February. About 2 million people have been screened for coronavirus — but shortages of swabs, lab materials and test kits continue to limit testing to the sickest patients, including those who have been hospitalized. Even then, some labs are struggling to meet demand. The commercial lab Quest Diagnostics had built up a backlog of 160,000 patient samples in California by late March. It has whittled that down to around 80,000 this week.
Public health groups say that until testing catches up to demand, two other groups should also be given priority: health care workers and high-risk patients, like the elderly or immunocompromised, who are displaying symptoms of a coronavirus infection....
A DELUGE of tests showing up at LABS!! And it's not just a matter of personnel, they are out of SUPPLIES to process the tests. So we are short ON TESTS and once we have them, we are SHORT on people and materials to process them.
What a clusterfuck people! What a total clusterfuck! The reasons why the U.S. isn’t on track to open up Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies.
Health care workers test patients for coronavirus at a drive-through testing site in Las Vegas. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By DAVID LIM
04/07/2020 06:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump and other officials are boasting that the United States is now testing nearly 700,000 people each week for the coronavirus. But that’s not enough to catch every case of the disease or to provide the kind of data needed to lift social distancing measures and allow people to go back to work. And because testing capacity remains inadequate, it’s unclear when we’ll get there.
Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies. A rapid test described by Trump in mid-March as a “game changer” that would soon be available in doctors offices is still hard to come by for many Americans.
And officials at some public and private labs are questioning the accuracy of new antibody tests that are designed to detect whether a person has ever been infected with the coronavirus — a crucial tool to understand the true scope of the U.S. outbreak. Here’s what’s actually happening with testing right now:
1. We’re testing tens of thousands of people every day — but it’s still not enough
The U.S. has come a long way since the botched rollout of the CDC’s diagnostic test in February. About 2 million people have been screened for coronavirus — but shortages of swabs, lab materials and test kits continue to limit testing to the sickest patients, including those who have been hospitalized. Even then, some labs are struggling to meet demand. The commercial lab Quest Diagnostics had built up a backlog of 160,000 patient samples in California by late March. It has whittled that down to around 80,000 this week.
Public health groups say that until testing catches up to demand, two other groups should also be given priority: health care workers and high-risk patients, like the elderly or immunocompromised, who are displaying symptoms of a coronavirus infection....
A DELUGE of tests showing up at LABS!! And it's not just a matter of personnel, they are out of SUPPLIES to process the tests. So we are short ON TESTS and once we have them, we are SHORT on people and materials to process them.
What a clusterfuck people! What a total clusterfuck! The reasons why the U.S. isn’t on track to open up Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies.
Health care workers test patients for coronavirus at a drive-through testing site in Las Vegas. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By DAVID LIM
04/07/2020 06:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump and other officials are boasting that the United States is now testing nearly 700,000 people each week for the coronavirus. But that’s not enough to catch every case of the disease or to provide the kind of data needed to lift social distancing measures and allow people to go back to work. And because testing capacity remains inadequate, it’s unclear when we’ll get there.
Labs nationwide are overwhelmed by patient samples flooding in as they continue to face a shortage of critical supplies. A rapid test described by Trump in mid-March as a “game changer” that would soon be available in doctors offices is still hard to come by for many Americans.
And officials at some public and private labs are questioning the accuracy of new antibody tests that are designed to detect whether a person has ever been infected with the coronavirus — a crucial tool to understand the true scope of the U.S. outbreak. Here’s what’s actually happening with testing right now:
1. We’re testing tens of thousands of people every day — but it’s still not enough
The U.S. has come a long way since the botched rollout of the CDC’s diagnostic test in February. About 2 million people have been screened for coronavirus — but shortages of swabs, lab materials and test kits continue to limit testing to the sickest patients, including those who have been hospitalized. Even then, some labs are struggling to meet demand. The commercial lab Quest Diagnostics had built up a backlog of 160,000 patient samples in California by late March. It has whittled that down to around 80,000 this week.
Public health groups say that until testing catches up to demand, two other groups should also be given priority: health care workers and high-risk patients, like the elderly or immunocompromised, who are displaying symptoms of a coronavirus infection....
No worries the swamp is being drained one corrupt player at a time.....the latest to go was the embedded player who was to oversea the allocation of the stimulus package. No more money laundering of US TAX PAYER dollars. Trump got fired Obama's IG a few days ago (Atkinson)…...are the walls closing in on the left?
No worries the swamp is being drained one corrupt player at a time.....the latest to go was the embedded player who was to oversea the allocation of the stimulus package. No more money laundering of US TAX PAYER dollars. Trump got fired Obama's IG a few days ago (Atkinson)…...are the walls closing in on the left?
The LUNGS are closing in on PATIENTS, "Left" or "Right," who can't get tested or get needed results back as they get sick and drown in their own fluids. Painful and miserable even if you survive or a miserable way to go.
From an inhalation therapist treating a 'healthy looking' 40 year old patient... “It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them as they really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning.
“When someone has an infection, I’m used to seeing the normal colors you’d associate with it: greens and yellows. The coronavirus patients with ARDS have been having a lot of secretions that are actually pink because they’re filled with blood cellsthat are leaking into their airways. They are essentially drowning in their own blood and fluids because their lungs are so full.
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