What about crooked Hillary's illegal email server - why is no-one talking about this.
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Yeah well he's not going to pay for it.
Not sure why the NHS wouldn't be doing mass testing, maybe they have a strategy, I doubt it.
The funny thing about this (not haha funny but you know) is that there will be zero reforms in the U.S. once the pandemic is over. I said this back in March but the pandemic was the worst thing to ever happen to the idea of universal healthcare. This public health crisis will not convince Americans to invest more in general public health. It will just make those people already disinclined to support universal healthcare feel even stronger in support of their healthcare insurance and setup they have already. Any government expansion of healthcare access to those people will be perceived as "the government is taking away healthcare resources that should be mine".uziq wrote:
that sucks pirana. a genuine bummer for any top-level athlete.
incidentally you seem to be ahead of most news sources in the UK. quite a scoop!
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/david-ha … isruptions
binggggg
Pretty obvious the Feds are going to be injecting people with invisible microchips.Vaccine coordinator Bechara Choucair told reporters on Wednesday evening that the administration would create “community vaccination centers” run by federal officials as part of its goal to get Americans injected as quickly as possible.
The UK has not been doing 'mass testing', its still doing testing only of people with bat-flu symptoms, with some exceptions eg teachers.uziq wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Yeah well he's not going to pay for it.
Not sure why the NHS wouldn't be doing mass testing, maybe they have a strategy, I doubt it.
/shrug. don't know what to say to you. we are doing 'mass testing'.
there's 150k spare tests per day. public and private options.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51943612Liverpool is the first English city to have regular coronavirus testing for all residents, whether they have symptoms or not, as part of a pilot.
Testing is considered a key way to control the epidemic, but government's system has experienced setbacks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-54872039Currently, most people can only have a test if they already have symptoms.
But the government would like to roll out mass testing in areas with high infection rates.
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I know what to say to you - he doesn't have symptoms so according to the guidelines he's not supposed to.uziq wrote:
if your uncle can't download the NHS app and click the button that says 'request test', or do the same on their website, i don't know what to say to you.
Once again you're completely wrong, amazing.mass testing is not fucking relevant to your uncle's situation. no country has started using lateral flow testing in a widespread fashion. it is being discussed as one of many 'exit routes' from pandemic lockdown and social distancing measures. 'mass testing' of the sort being trialled in cities around the world now means everyday, casual, rapid and reliable testing so that people can RETURN TO A SEMBLANCE OF NORMAL.
there is literally no sense in doing 'mass' PCR testing of the entire (fit and healthy) population to 'check' for covid. what an enormous waste of resources at a time when the entire public health system of the UK (and world) are close to collapse. not a priority, OBVIOUSLY.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54504785The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days.
The mass testing comes after the discovery of a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.
In May, China tested the entire city of Wuhan - home to 11 million people and the epicentre of the global pandemic.
The country has largely brought the virus under control.
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In a statement posted to Chinese social media site Weibo, Qingdao's Municipal Health Commission said six new cases and six asymptomatic cases had been discovered.
All the cases were linked to the same hospital, said the state-run Global Times.
The Chinese authorities now have a strategy of mass testing even when a new coronavirus cluster appears to be relatively minor, correspondents say.
The National Health Commission said on Monday that "the whole city will be tested within five days".
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Various countries also do sewage testing.Hundreds of testing centres were opened, with thousands of staff involved.
They also mobilised teams to test disabled people, the elderly and those vulnerable in their own homes.
One of the ways they sped up the process was to use batch- or pool-testing.
In this process, a batch of between five and 10 samples was tested. Only if a sample tested positive would the team go back to carry out individual tests to see who was positive within the batch.
