IIRC, it was yesterday I saw reported that there are 40 mil. tests available, yet only 5 mil. have

[sprinkleeninow]

been tested??

Whiskey Tango Alpha Foxtrot??

[SCantiGOP]

1. Pence admitted their lie today

There have been plenty of “tests” for weeks.
The test includes a long Qtip in a sterile package, and a container to store it in to send to the lab.
And that is where the system collapses. There aren’t near enough testing supplies (what they call reagents) or a process to expedite the testing.

[SunSeeker]

4. Yup. It's like sending out checks without having money in the bank to cover them.

Pence actually tried to play this game of what "test" means when asked about his promise a month ago that he was sending out millions of tests "within the week." He now claims when he said test he only meant the kit.

But if a kit does not have reagent and a facility to process it, then it is not a test. It is just a fucking Q-tip.

[rainbow4321]

8. Motherfucker tried to gaslight and Trump smirked in background

Reporter brought up how Pence said a month ago that 4 million tests would be done. Pence: I said testing would be done, YOU misunderstood...I didn’t say anything was ran/processed. Trump in the background fucking smirking like “good boy, Pence, good boy”.

[onecaliberal]

2. Apparently there is a crap ton of different kind of tests.

Most of them were not actually tested for efficacy by the FDA. I ready somewhere there were a lot of false positives with several of the tests, so...

[sprinkleeninow]

3. we're the fricken united fricken states of fricken america!!!

i do not mean that disparagingly

good damn thing my parents are departed

[mr_lebowski]

5. yeah, but in serious danger of devolving into dumbfuckistan i'm afraid ...

[sprinkleeninow]

6. ...

'Holdin' on to Yesterday'

[mr_lebowski]

7. I know the feeling :) nt

[Recursion]

9. The tests don't administer themselves

You need people to do the swabs and to process the samples. That's the bottleneck right now.

[Texaswitchy]

10. Because of asshole in the White House.

We are a third world country.

[crickets]

11. K&R for visibility.

[Bucky]

12. I think they're saving them for when the pandemic sweeps through K Street