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Originally Posted by vienna
Did any one else think Trump looked particularly pained when he gave his brief address on Wednesday night? He was so stilted and awkward it kind of reminded me of one of those hostage videos where someone is holding up cue cards with the demands while another person holds a gun on the hostage speaking; did anyone see if maybe Trump was trying to send a hidden signal, you know like blinking out Morse code or something? Or, maybe, he was inwardly contemplating how he has royally screwed the pooch and frittering away his hopes of reeleection... 
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Yeah, he looked like he was out of it. He has a high likelihood of having the virus, with all the people he sees daily. God, I hope Mike Pence is feeling strong. He's the same age as me but in far better condition.
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Originally Posted by Rufus Shinra
Meh, as of now, people are enjoying picturing this as the end of civilization, acting as if it was mega-Ebola killing painfully all people contaminated.
It's kinda funny.
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Really? Where?
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
He also said
Yet it is being reported here in the UK that there is a severe shortage of testing kits in the US.
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Yeah, boilerplate Trump, has to add some put downs of Europe, boast about how the US is the best and most capable, blah blah. Honestly, China did a far better job handling this than we have done.
Labs across the US have been ordered not to test by the CDC.
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the sluggish rollout of the tests has become a debilitating weakness in America’s response to the spread of the coronavirus. By this point in its outbreak, South Korea had tested more than 100,000 people for the disease, and it was testing roughly 15,000 people every day. The United Kingdom, where three people have died of COVID-19, has already tested more than 24,900 people.
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‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response
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C.D.C. officials repeatedly said it would not be possible. “If you want to use your test as a screening tool, you would have to check with F.D.A.,” Gayle Langley, an officer at the C.D.C.’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, wrote back in an email on Feb. 16. But the F.D.A. could not offer the approval because the lab was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months.
Dr. Chu and Dr. Lindquist tried repeatedly to wrangle approval to use the Seattle Flu Study. The answers were always no.
“We felt like we were sitting, waiting for the pandemic to emerge,” Dr. Chu said. “We could help. We couldn’t do anything.”
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