we were testing, we abandoned it

we don't have the domestic industrial capacity to mass produce testing kits/components thereof in the volumes now required for mass testing, and every other country is trying to buy testing kits and the components to make them on the international market.

The horse has bolted.

Posted By: CWC on April 16th 2020 at 09:38:11

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With regards to Covid19 testing. (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Apr 16, 09:03:39
- I firmly believe that the UK should’ve started testing a lot earlier, look at Germany and (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Apr 16, 09:09:31
  - I only got tested due to the new expanded criteria (General Chat) - I Am Hoot, Apr 16, 10:36:32
  - It's almost as if the UK only had enough test reagents (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Apr 16, 10:18:53
    - The UK has had 4 times as many deaths as Germany, and has done 1/4 of the number of tests (n/m) (General Chat) - jampersands, Apr 16, 10:53:15
      - (12,000 deaths here vs 4,000 there. 400k tests here, vs 1.7m there. (General Chat) - jampersands, Apr 16, 10:54:54
        
        WTAF? (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Apr 16, 12:36:55
        
        Were Germany on another globe then? (n/m) (General Chat) - jampersands, Apr 16, 13:35:40
        
        Germany is the* country that makes the reagents (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, Apr 16, 19:38:58
    - I read the yanks have started to produce one which is 98% reliable and takes 15 minutes. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Apr 16, 10:41:38
  - we were testing, we abandoned it (General Chat) - CWC, Apr 16, 09:38:11
  - yep,and the results of south korean and german testing have been known for well over a mon (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Apr 16, 09:18:41

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