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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump will end funding for coronavirus testing sites on Friday
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/829955099/federal-support-for-coronavirus-testing-sites-end-as-peak-nearsIn the Philadelphia suburbs, Montgomery County has a drive-through site that has tested 250 people a day since March 21.
"It has been a very successful site. We are hoping by the time it closes Friday afternoon that we will have tested a little over 5,000 individuals," says Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, who chairs the commission in the county of more than 825,000 people.
Montgomery County has been hit hard by the pandemic. By Tuesday the county identified 1,294 positive cases and reported 32 COVID-19-related deaths.
Arkoosh says local officials staffed the site and the federal government provided much-needed testing supplies and access to a lab. "This site came with a contract with LabCorp, who accepted 250 samples from this site every day," and she says the county is not able to secure the supplies and tests on its own.
Arkoosh says the site, located on a local college campus, will shut down Friday. Similar announcements have been made in Colorado Springs, Colo., and nearby Philadelphia.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells NPR, "Many of the Community-Based Testing Sites (CBTS) are not closing, but rather transitioning to state-managed sites on or about April 10."
Initech
(100,079 posts)misanthrope
(7,417 posts)And the grift goes on.
brewens
(13,589 posts)want passengers from that first cruise ship. The numbers.
CousinIT
(9,245 posts)Oddly, he's whining he wants the country "opened up" again. The BIGGEST thing that would help do that is TESTING TESTING TESTING TESTING -- then contact tracing and containment. Absent that MANY more people will become infected, die, lose jobs, and this will go on for many more months and cost US taxpayers trillions more than it ever would have otherwise.
But that's what happens when you put a sociopath in charge of a pandemic.
brewens
(13,589 posts)we could and just letting people die. I don't think the people in favor of that would have liked it for very long if we had. I don't care how many get off easy with really mild symptoms, this shit is scary and you don't want to find out how bad it's going to be for you.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)The more tests, the more infected, the worse he looks.
He thinks most all Americans are a bunch of idiots, just like his cult.
Boy is he in for a surprise.
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)n/t
Cha
(297,275 posts)Is this putin's bidding?
That ******** assface needs to GO.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Luciferous
(6,081 posts)and say he fixed everything
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Luciferous
(6,081 posts)onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)States are reporting their own numbers. That psycho mother fucker cannot stop whats happening.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)We're only at the beginning of the peak.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)he IS crazy as a bedbug (just ask those residing at his FL bug ridden golf resort).
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)on the WH lawn, so that the ignoramus can see the devastation in his[our] backyard. He can attempt to sound somber, but in reality he still doesn't get it.
UTUSN
(70,700 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He doesn't seem to understand that dead people don't return to work or go out shopping, dining or vacationing, and neither do live people who are still in fear for their lives. He can go ahead and "open the country up for business", but anyone with any sense will still be practicing social distancing and avoiding crowded places.
He thinks that he can just wish this all away and the economy will make a miraculous comeback. He is in for the shock of his life. This will dog him all the way to the election and beyond.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Beartracks
(12,814 posts)That's pretty much it. I don't honestly know how Trump and his stooges think you can sweep a pandemic under the rug, but they and the Republicans are sure as hell trying.
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BidenBacker
(1,089 posts)What's the Fuhrer's plans to hide all the dead bodies that start piling up...make them into Soylent Green???
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