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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGermany made and distributed 1.4 million test by end of February
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/cdc-who-coronavirus-tests/%3foutputType=ampWhen 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
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.
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Germany made and distributed 1.4 million test by end of February (Original Post)
uponit7771
Mar 2020
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DSandra
(999 posts)1. You have to suspect there is a lot of corruption involved
When there are ridiculous levels of incompetence unexplainably occurring.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)2. +1, and still occurring to this day
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)3. Kick for Notice
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)4. Kick
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)5. Thx !!!
malaise
(269,157 posts)6. This needs to be seen
He didn't want tests
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)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
(90,359 posts)8. +1, this needs to be the biggest story now
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)9. Big Pharma/Med needs time to calculate their windfall profits on this...
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)10. +1, one of the reasons why we're behind North Korea
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)11. Kick for Notice