This makes it sound like a far far FAR less developed project than the president sold at the presser

[octoberlib]

Link to tweet

This makes it sound like a far far FAR less developed project than the president sold at the presser.


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Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time




Trump said during his presser that the Google triage website would be up for everybody by Sunday.

[Midnightwalk]

1. Triaging testing

Sounds like how to cope while we don’t have enough testing capability.

It might be what is needed until we have enough testing capacity but should i treat those words as an admission that we don’t have sufficient capacity?

[octoberlib]

4. He said the Google website would be up by Sunday but sounds like Google just started on it.

[Midnightwalk]

5. Which is bad enough

What I’m trying to say is why do we need to triage tests? Because we can’t do enough so there needs to be prioritization (triage).

It might be the best we can do now, but it seems to be an admission that there won’t be enough tests soon. Otherwise we’d just do the tests wouldn’t we?

Just in case, I’m not criticizing anything you’ve said. Just adding that triaging testing is not a substitute for having enough tests.

[uponit7771]

2. Without unfettered testing we're fucked! We don't know who has the virus

[Turbineguy]

3. For Trump, the important thing

is that nobody ever finds out how bad this really is (and it may not be all that bad in the end, if we get lucky). Hence, testing but no coordinated record keeping. Years from now, RWNJ websites can claim that the only people who died were in states runs by democrat governors and we all know what democrats are like.

Or we can play "nobody really knows but" range estimates are like this: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html