Trump administration to partner with private sector to set up drive-through testing
Source: Washington Post
Health
Under heavy fire, Trump administration takes steps to expand coronavirus testing
By Amy Goldstein, Laurie McGinley and Yasmeen Abutaleb
March 13, 2020 at 8:58 a.m. EDT
The Trump administration plans to partner with the private sector to set up drive-through testing sites for coronavirus one of a series of measures underway Friday to boost U.S. testing availability in the face of heated criticism from lawmakers and frustrated Americans unable to find out whether they are infected.
Officials were scheduled to discuss expanding drive-through testing sites, involving private companies as well as state and local health departments, in a meeting at the White House Friday, according to three individuals familiar with the effort.
Representatives from Walgreens, Walmart and CVS, as well as commercial diagnostic labs and manufactures, were slated to attend, according to a senior administration official involved in the response.
The Trump administration announced the measures a day after receiving a harsh drubbing on Capitol Hill. At one House hearing, Antony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institutes of Healths National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged the U.S. testing system is not really geared to what we need right now
That is a failing. Lets admit it.
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Amy Goldstein
Amy Goldstein is The Washington Posts national health-care policy writer. During her 30 years at The Post, her stories have taken her from homeless shelters to Air Force One, often focused on the intersection of politics and public policy. She is the author of the book "Janesville: An American Story." Follow https://twitter.com/goldsteinamy
Laurie McGinley
Laurie McGinley covers health and medicine for The Washington Post. She focuses on the Food and Drug Administration as well as cancer research and treatment. She was previously The Post's health, science and environment editor. Follow https://twitter.com/lauriemcginley2
Yasmeen Abutaleb
Yasmeen Abutaleb joined The Washington Post in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy, with a focus on the Department of Health and Human Services, health policy on Capitol Hill and health care in politics. She previously covered health care for Reuters, with a focus on the Affordable Care Act, federal health programs and drug pricing. Follow https://twitter.com/yabutaleb7
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KPN
(15,650 posts)Governor Cuomo/New York State already announced this exact program in New York. Just f'ing stop trying to cover your fat f'ing butt with late, after the fact proclamations of "see what I'm doing to save America and keep it great" that confiscate what other competent leaders created to fill the giant f'ing void your administration represents.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)KPN
(15,650 posts)and divert on something that has potential to kill many people and totally crash our economy. If they have any concern about their own future credibility and trustworthiness at all, they would all be calling him out on this crap right now as opposed to just rolling out the announcement as if it were nothing more than straight-forward news. There is nothing straight-forward about anything that comes out of this administration.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)KPN
(15,650 posts)bluestarone
(17,043 posts)Total BULLSHIT!! He has to be REMOVED!!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)inquiring minds want to know. The Administration is just the middle-man, but really..it's the states that are at fault..according to the 'senior administration official'
The problem were experience is there is a surplus of lab tests available, but those labs and state and public health departments are not setting up effective mechanisms to get people testing, the official said, adding, there is no reason states cannot set up a drive-through a clinic in a parking lot for patients to be swabbed and specimens shipped off to labs to determine the results.
NBachers
(17,142 posts)that were incomplete and couldn't be used.
Blue voter die-off is the objective.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)... are just another MF45-cum-grifting-cabal incorporated.
NOTHING, nothing, and did I say NOTHING?
That's right. NOTHING out of the mouth of any member of this maladministration is credible. EVAH!
marble falls
(57,240 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)Gotta make sure their donors get rich off this, peasants be damned.
It takes a lot of conning to get enough peasants to keep voting them into power, or stealing distance of power.
GOPee good at the conning, not the governing.
olddad65
(599 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)Bankrupt and kill the poor, minorities, etc. They must be elated that they are achieving their goal.
Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)I wonder what it feels like to know that you have murdered people? And all you had to do to accomplish that was ignore all the facts in front of you.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)they automatically justify all their actions and feel nothing but pride. They are sadistic sociopaths and proud of it.
littlemissmartypants
(22,808 posts)They like it. Let that sink in, killing, wounding, hurting anyone else makes them feel good. It's the result of a sick and twisted sociopath/psychopath brain. The more harm done, the better they feel.
Trump and Pence I believe are cut from the same cloth. Trump most definitely is a sociopath/psychopath. I would bet money on it.
Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)Just think of what they've done. As you wrote, creating this massive chaos by doing nothing. And then sitting back and watching it.
You can tell that Trump feeds off of anything that is twisted. I didn't really look at it that way until I read your words, but it's as plain as day now that I recognize it.