Trump will end funding for coronavirus testing sites on Friday

[CousinIT]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/829955099/federal-support-for-coronavirus-testing-sites-end-as-peak-nears

Some local officials are disappointed the federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites this Friday. In a few places those sites will close as a result. This as criticism continues that not enough testing is available.

In the Philadelphia suburbs, Montgomery County has a drive-through site that has tested 250 people a day since March 21.

"It has been a very successful site. We are hoping by the time it closes Friday afternoon that we will have tested a little over 5,000 individuals," says Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, who chairs the commission in the county of more than 825,000 people.

Montgomery County has been hit hard by the pandemic. By Tuesday the county identified 1,294 positive cases and reported 32 COVID-19-related deaths.

Arkoosh says local officials staffed the site and the federal government provided much-needed testing supplies and access to a lab. "This site came with a contract with LabCorp, who accepted 250 samples from this site every day," and she says the county is not able to secure the supplies and tests on its own.

Arkoosh says the site, located on a local college campus, will shut down Friday. Similar announcements have been made in Colorado Springs, Colo., and nearby Philadelphia.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells NPR, "Many of the Community-Based Testing Sites (CBTS) are not closing, but rather transitioning to state-managed sites on or about April 10."

[Initech]

1. God damn them!!!! It's like they are trying to get people killed!

[misanthrope]

2. What, did Mango Mussolini figure out a way to pocket those funds, too?

And the grift goes on.

[brewens]

3. He has been blocking testing all along. I bet we get proof of that. For the same reason he didn't

want passengers from that first cruise ship. The numbers.

[CousinIT]

4. I figure the same: He's been blocking testing all along.

Oddly, he's whining he wants the country "opened up" again. The BIGGEST thing that would help do that is TESTING TESTING TESTING TESTING -- then contact tracing and containment. Absent that MANY more people will become infected, die, lose jobs, and this will go on for many more months and cost US taxpayers trillions more than it ever would have otherwise.

But that's what happens when you put a sociopath in charge of a pandemic.

[brewens]

8. Maybe we could have kept things going along just letting people get sick, treating who

we could and just letting people die. I don't think the people in favor of that would have liked it for very long if we had. I don't care how many get off easy with really mild symptoms, this shit is scary and you don't want to find out how bad it's going to be for you.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, Pence said we'd have 5 million test by Mar 16 on the 9th of March

[not_the_one]

10. Pure optics.

The more tests, the more infected, the worse he looks.

He thinks most all Americans are a bunch of idiots, just like his cult.

Boy is he in for a surprise.

[Blue Owl]

5. Cheaters don't like tests of any kind

n/t

[Cha]

6. trump is blatantly causing Americans to die in Plain Sight..

Is this putin's bidding?

That ******** assface needs to GO.

[sakabatou]

7. EVIL!

[Luciferous]

11. Of course he will. If people aren't being tested the numbers go down and he can lie

and say he fixed everything

[onecaliberal]

14. No they won't. In fact just the opposite will happen.

[Luciferous]

15. How will the number of cases being reported go up if people aren't being tested?

[onecaliberal]

16. Lots of people who pass are hospitalized and states are making their own tests.

States are reporting their own numbers. That psycho mother fucker cannot stop whats happening.

[C_U_L8R]

12. That's insane.

We're only at the beginning of the peak.

[BigmanPigman]

22. If the shoe fits....

he IS crazy as a bedbug (just ask those residing at his FL bug ridden golf resort).

[Totally Tunsie]

13. Frankly, I think the next pop-up hospital should be built

on the WH lawn, so that the ignoramus can see the devastation in his[our] backyard. He can attempt to sound somber, but in reality he still doesn't get it.

[UTUSN]

17. What?!!!

[smirkymonkey]

18. He is evil and irretrievably stupid.

He doesn't seem to understand that dead people don't return to work or go out shopping, dining or vacationing, and neither do live people who are still in fear for their lives. He can go ahead and "open the country up for business", but anyone with any sense will still be practicing social distancing and avoiding crowded places.

He thinks that he can just wish this all away and the economy will make a miraculous comeback. He is in for the shock of his life. This will dog him all the way to the election and beyond.

[BadgerMom]

19. Anger, hatred and frustration surge through me.

[Beartracks]

20. Trump: "But if we keep testing, we'll find more sick people and that makes my numbers look bad!!"

That's pretty much it. I don't honestly know how Trump and his stooges think you can sweep a pandemic under the rug, but they and the Republicans are sure as hell trying.

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[BidenBacker]

21. People are gonna die whether they get tested or not

What's the Fuhrer's plans to hide all the dead bodies that start piling up...make them into Soylent Green???

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