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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]

FDA approved mid-March:  https://www.medtechdive.com/news/coronavirus-roche-test-fda-emergency-use/574073/[/quote]

That perfectly demonstrates the problem. We should have been testing from January. Trump cost us the entire month of February and half of March downplaying the epidemic. 
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First, part of "reopening" is the testing component you keep talking about.  Nobody is saying we are going to resume normal life tomorrow.  It is a phased approach that involves testing, hospital capacity, PPE and the list goes on. If you heard the FDA said they were doing full contact tracing, etc. our West when this first was discovered in US. Then it got out of hand and they changed course but I believe Washington state continued which is why their numbers are on the lower end. Contact tracing is also part of the reopening plan. Testing every single person every single day is not going to happen nor is it necessary.  I am honestly not sure why you keep saying millions will die and we shouldn't open up parts of the economy with all these things in place.  
Fauci & Birx are not under "political" pressure and said so.  Come on man.[/quote]

I have never said that "millions will die", let alone kept saying it. Don't put words in my mouth.

Testing and contact tracing, plus use of PPE are necessary for reopening but what the White House is proposing for testing is too limited and there is no plan for ensuring sufficient use of PPE. OSHA should be getting involved with this aspect.

My exact position is that the economy should start to reopen when these things are in place. But they have to really be in place, not the Potemkin testing that the White House is describing.

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