DeSantis To Cut Back Work With Some Labs, Says 'Many' Are Too Slow To Provide COVID-19 Results
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Zoë Richards
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July 16, 2020 8:11 a.m.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) said on Wednesday that state officials will stop sending COVID-19 tests to labs that are slow to turn around results.
“Those who can produce are going to get more of the business, and I think that’s the best way to go about it,” DeSantis said, according to the Miami Herald.
The governor announced that instead the Department of Emergency Management will start sending work to labs with a track record of faster turnaround time – a move raises questions about what impact having fewer testing labs would have for COVID-19 testing in the state overall.
DeSantis said he was frustrated with many of the labs the state has contracted with to perform tests. He asked labs serving drive-through testing sites to produce results within 48 hours, a target that he said “many” of the labs aren’t meeting.
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Okay shit for brains, have you looked in the mirror lately, your the fucking one that has in all reality caused your shit show to happen, remember you are one of the death cult governors that opened to soon and you said fucker that people don't need mask's and go ahead and have great time at the beach and just mill around like sand fleas and now your whining that you can't get results fast enough............you think just maybe in that libertarian piss ant head of your's that you and your buddy in the white house are the problem .....you and him have BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.................fucking resign
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The labs are "slow" because they (the large testing companies like Quest) are overwhelmed. They could barely handle the workload from states that finally got their positives down (let alone still do routine medical tests for non-COVID related scripts), even when some chain pharmacies started to offer and deploy their own testing. And now with a massive tsunami of tests that include positives, we have found here in PA that they are turning around "negatives" within a 48-hour timeframe but the positives are naturally taking longer.
And now, just like in March/April, there are shortages again of the swabs and reagents to run the tests. And if we keep pissing off China, there will be even more shortages because by golly, US companies didn't feel it made economic sense to pay minimum wage here to make these things and farmed it out to $10/day wage countries.
and then declare this pandemic over. easy
