Germany made and distributed 1.4 million test by end of February

[uponit7771]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/cdc-who-coronavirus-tests/%3foutputType=amp

When Olfert Landt heard about the novel coronavirus, he got busy.

Founder of a small Berlin-based company, the ponytailed 54-year-old first raced to help German researchers come up with a diagnostic test and then spurred his company to produce and ship more than 1.4 million tests by the end of February for the World Health Organization

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This is not a huge firm, he and his wife work it ...

If we had nationwide unrestricted testing we could move on with knowing who's sick and who's not instead of hunkering down with possible carriers.

Obama administration had 1 million tested weeks after swine flu national health emergency declaration IINM.

[DSandra]

1. You have to suspect there is a lot of corruption involved

When there are ridiculous levels of incompetence unexplainably occurring.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, and still occurring to this day

[uponit7771]

3. Kick for Notice

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[uponit7771]

5. Thx !!!

[malaise]

6. This needs to be seen

He didn't want tests

[Aquaria]

7. The Tangerine Tyrant

Has dithered with the testing because he didn't want the numbers making him look bad before he could find a way to profit off testing and a vaccine. That's why he's been pushing the vaccine to be done faster than a year--he wants to make money off it, and if it takes a year to get it, then he's out of office and SOL.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, this needs to be the biggest story now

[Wounded Bear]

9. Big Pharma/Med needs time to calculate their windfall profits on this...

[uponit7771]

10. +1, one of the reasons why we're behind North Korea

[uponit7771]

11. Kick for Notice