Andy Slavitt: Lab companies indicate it'll be 8 weeks before USA is able to do all needed testing

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Andy Slavitt@ASlavitt·3h
NEW: Because we can’t get a straight answer from the Trump Administration, I have checked with lab companies.

The best estimate is it will be 8 weeks before we have all the nationwide testing we need.

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Andy Slavitt is Former Medicare, Medicaid & ACA head for Obama. Founded @usofcare & @townhallvntrs
to make health care work. Never broke a website, only fixed a big one.

[doc03]

1. That will make us like 12 weeks behind the rest

of the world Thanks Trump.

[Newest Reality]

2. Oh gosh...

Well, allowing for up to two weeks currently estimated for incubation, (2-14 days) that will be four cycles of potential increases in cases with each one substantially larger.

That's just ridiculous to the nth degree. Since the pandemic may not peak until late April or even May, better late than never does not apply so much here. The hospitals may have reached overwhelming levels of patients before then.

The tests should have been available when the cases in China made it clear what was going on with this, so a month or two ago.

Well, good luck to us all. We are on our own, in a sense.

[spinbaby]

3. In Korea, you can get drive-through testing

With results in ten minutes.

[iluvtennis]

4. And we the richest country oin the world shoiuld also have that capability here. nt