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AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:36 PM Apr 2020

Is Georgia getting it's Covid-19 testing swab act together?

https://www.wabe.org/augusta-university-to-play-key-role-in-georgias-promised-escalation-in-testing/

As the state of Georgia attempts to increase the number of COVID-19 tests it conducts each day, Augusta University is taking a central role.

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Keel says they will soon be able to produce 5,000 swabs per day, up from the current 1,000 per day. Keel says that ingenuity is an example of how Augusta University’s faculty, staff and students have changed gears as the coronavirus has spread.

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“We have sent them out to the four corners of the state to work in our branch campuses and to work with their local departments of health so they can get not only didactic training on what this pandemic means in real time in real life,” said Keel.

Keel says the coronavirus pandemic has presented the school with an opportunity to train the next generation of caregivers
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Is Georgia getting it's Covid-19 testing swab act together? (Original Post) AntiFascist Apr 2020 OP
Testing in Ga. is slow & rare. It really bugs me that our Governor seems to be kissing DT's butt napi21 Apr 2020 #1
I don't know about the governor in this effort... AntiFascist Apr 2020 #3
Georgia first needs to get its governor together. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Apr 2020 #2
THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! n/t napi21 Apr 2020 #4
Maybe swap governors with Iowa? n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Apr 2020 #5
I'd rather go back & recount the damn election. This time, count the absentee ballots & the napi21 Apr 2020 #6

napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. Testing in Ga. is slow & rare. It really bugs me that our Governor seems to be kissing DT's butt
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:46 PM
Apr 2020

AGAIN! He wouldn't have started this opening process on his own, he doesn't ever think that far all by himself. No, he's doing it 'cause DT is pushing it so he can get elected again in Nov. I'm not going to go back to my normal activities & so far nobody I've spoken to is either. I'm quietly giggling in the corner at seeing our Gov. (Kemp) & DT crying & moaning because opened all these places but there's no customers!

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
3. I don't know about the governor in this effort...
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:51 PM
Apr 2020

all I know, from this article, is that a university is trying it's best to solve the problem. If there is any success, then other states can learn from the experience. If GA turns out to be a failure, then the opposite is true.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
6. I'd rather go back & recount the damn election. This time, count the absentee ballots & the
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 09:08 PM
Apr 2020

provisional ballots they gave out to people they couldn't find on the voting lists on election day! This guy was Sec. of State at the same time he ran for Governor, so HE was in charge of the elections too. (including purging names he claimed didn't belong there.)

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