https://time.com/5828843/trump-coronavirus-testing-giroir/ Trump Says U.S. Will Run 5 Million Daily Virus Tests 'Very Soon.' His Testing Chief Says That's Impossible President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the U.S. will be able to carry out five million coronavirus tests per day, but the top official overseeing testing strategy told TIME earlier in the day that goal wasn’t feasible given current technology. Admiral Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health who is in charge of the government’s testing response, said during an interview on Tuesday morning that “there is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even five million tests a day.” Since the beginning of the year, the Administration has conducted 5.7 million tests in total, he said. And while the government has made strides in increasing the number of tests being performed in recent months, the White House’s new “blueprint” for testing, rolled out on Monday, currently plans to double current COVID-19 testing. Giroir plans to hit 8 million per month by next month. The tally would still fall short of what a Harvard University study said is necessary to safely restart public life. The 56-page “roadmap” published last week by a group of experts said the U.S. needed to be capable of carrying out at least 5 million tests a day by early June, and 20 million per day by late July, in order to reopen the economy. Giroir called the assessment “an Ivory Tower, unreasonable benchmark,” that wasn’t needed, based upon current modeling projections, and that couldn’t be supported by current technology. Five hours later, when a reporter asked Trump at the White House if the country would reach five million daily tests, as the Harvard study recommended, Trump responded: “We’ll increase it, and it’ll increase it by much more than that in the very near future.” Asked to clarify if he meant the U.S. would “surpass 5 million tests per day”, Trump said, “We’re going to be there very soon.” The largest number of tests conducted by the U.S. in a single day was 314,182, according to Covid Tracking Project data. Trump didn’t offer how his Administration was going to account for the 1,500% increase, but assured those at the briefing: “If you look at the numbers, it could be that we’re getting very close.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/i-...s-would-have-5-million-tests-a-day-very-soon/ ‘I didn’t say it!’ Trump goes on wild rant denying he said US would have 5 million tests a day ‘very soon’ April 29, 2020 David Edwards President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that he had earlier said that the United States would soon be able to process 5 million coronavirus tests per day. While speaking to the press in the Oval Office, Trump was asked about remarks he had made a day earlier suggesting that the US would hit 5 million daily tests “very soon.” Trump called the question a “media trap.” “Do I think we will [have 5 million tests per day]?,” the president said. “I think we will but I never said it.” When a reporter pointed out that he had indeed made the remark, Trump objected again. “I didn’t say it! I didn’t say it!” the president insisted before launching into a rant about how well his administration handled the pandemic.
Seriously what the duck already with him.. Testing is the answer to all this lockdown shit and he brags we have done more testing than anyone else (not really true) and we will get to 5 million daily when we barely do 200,000 daily.... He should shut the fuck up and ask for permission whenever he wants to say a "fact"
IF Trump listened to advice, and had decent advisors he could’ve gone down in history as a great leader. Cometh the hour cometh the man. Trump just showed he’s totally out of his depth on a multitude of levels.
I was talking to a doctor here about this new drug trial and he was saying there must be a real concern that anything showing promise will be ruined by Trump's hyperbole. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/popul...udied-treatment-coronavirus/story?id=70356236
Should just hand out 5 million masks daily . I don't think they could get that many people to volunteer unless they can feel certain the test kits aren't contaminated and the followup prescription is more optimistic than sit in a dark room alone until you're ready to be intubated on a ventilator after checking into an emergency room. If they can have a test kit on the one hand they should have hydroxycloroquine in the other. This would be motivation to volunteer in case results were positive.
A mask is a piece of equipment. It’s like a screwdriver or even a car. It’s as useful, reliable or dangerous as its user. I’ve seen people fidgeting and manhandling with this piece of attire so frequently that they are essentially turning themselves into an incubation zone. They have the best of intentions.....