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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAndy Slavitt: "best estimate is it will be 8 weeks before we have all the nationwide testing needed"
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Andy Slavitt ✔@ASlavitt
NEW: Because we cant 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.
2:22 PM - Mar 9, 2020
Andy Slavitt - Former Medicare, Medicaid & ACA head for Obama.
8 *weeks*? Not days??
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Andy Slavitt: "best estimate is it will be 8 weeks before we have all the nationwide testing needed" (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Mar 2020
OP
Yep, on purpose and a way for Trump to call martial law before the election. Some give Trump BOTD
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#2
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)1. No no no! We are screwed.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)2. Yep, on purpose and a way for Trump to call martial law before the election. Some give Trump BOTD
Quixote1818
(28,955 posts)3. So then hundreds of thousands of people with the illness will be spreading it far and wide in that
time making things much worse. Total disaster!
Squinch
(50,989 posts)4. The cases are doubling every 3 days. It is 600 today in the US.
If it keeps doubling every 3 days, in 8 weeks there will be 157,000,000 people infected.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE.
With a 2% mortality rate, that will be THREE MILLION DEAD.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)7. death rate will be higher cause we don't have enough ICU capacity
We have every potential to be worse than China.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)9. *this* is the manageable part of the crisis.
Probably can't change the total number of cases we'll have, but by slowing the rate of infection, the number of cases at any one time is lessened, which allows the limited medical resources to be applied to more of the cases over time.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)5. we are now a danger to the entire world
soon most counties will deny any flights from the US.
I am afraid to imagine how two weeks from now will look like, let alone 8 weeks.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)6. K & R
This news is even more sobering.
tblue37
(65,463 posts)8. K&R for visibility. nt