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Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/wuhan-doctors-sa...
Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
This is a global adversary, and a global response is required.
Perhaps when we dance this dance again, global health expertise and transparency will be the default from the beginning.
Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
Shouldn't there be hundreds of labs with these machines though? The United States government spends far more on healthcare than any other nation on Earth. That's not including private health costs. South Korea has the capacity to test 20,000 per day and has 1/6th the population.
Yes. Roche just got FDA approval on a SARS-COV-2 test that will take four (4) hours that works with two of their (whatever you call the machine) models. Per Roche there are around 110 of those machines in the United States. Bloomberg had estimated throughput numbers and also indicated that Roche has tests that work with some of their other, slower equipment (that I assume is in the US as well).
Mayo Clinic recently developed a 2 hour test.
The limits on testing are, from my POV, entirely political at this point.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815522836/u-s-coronavirus-tes...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/roche-get...
Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jack Ma cannot be trusted. He swings high and low, doesn't know where the ball is. He once hit a Alibaba home run and thinks he is a hotshot. It's hard to trust Jack Ma with undertones of the CCP propaganda in this humanitarian aid. Elon and Jack Ma debates in Shanghai, just listen this guy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU Edit: I am not defending the United States. Just look at what our president sa…
That hardly seems like the point, does it?
The limiting factor right now is the availability of approved labs to perform the test
A big point of the Presidents address today was around relaxing regulations to help the response. So hopefully this will get sorted out.
I think this epidemic is pretty much solved, don't you?
One of the reasons the US developed its own test was that the test that China was using had a 48% false negative rate. These are probably the same tests.
Also, the US CDC could have used the German tests but instead pushed forward on making their own.
"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.