How The U.S. Fell Dangerously Behind In Coronavirus Testing
The deadly coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks, and exposed a weak spot in the United States’ preparedness for a public health emergency. Experts say aggressive diagnostic testing is essential in order to learn where and how an epidemic spreads. But in the critical first weeks of the outbreak in the U.S., one problem after another prevented doctors, clinics, and labs around the country from testing enough people. Patients in America were being sent home as hospitals rationed their test supply, while other countries like South Korea found a way to test hundreds of thousands of people quickly. Now, the U.S. is months behind in understanding the true scope of the virus. Testing capacity is finally ramping up, but is it too late?
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How The U.S. Fell Dangerously Behind In Coronavirus Testing
When every choice you make is based on $ you start making really bad choices.
Why is AFRICA NEVER !! Mention in any of the news media? About the virus .HUH!!!!!!!!!!
@Dorothy Temple What about africa?
When you see scientists as the enemy and fire true experts and appoint brown nosers… You’re probably a Republican..
@billytheweasel Yet Democrats are the ones that said it was racist to close the borders.
7:51 “I think THEY listen to their scientists”
I’m not in America and I’m scared for you guys. May God save Us ALL.
@Mike Tran😷 THANKYOU 😲CHINA👹,FOR THE CHINA👹 VIRUS 😷
Then please don’t come here.
@thelast one but America has the most cases so…
@horste breedow I think countries all over the world will ban flights from the US in the future, considering how you’re handling this pandemic lol.
Don’t be! The “news” are not telling the truth. … as usual. Their intention is to create FEAR and chaos. And of course Blame President Trump!
I swear we are fighting two pandemics
Covid 19 and Stupidity media
@MooseT I guess you don’t remember Fox News freaking out about the ebola outbreak they claimed Obama mishandled. Two Americans died, compared to the over 2000 that have died from covid-19.
MooseT Didn’t Obama and Biden stop the Ebola outbreak in America? Trump failed.
Chicken Noodle Trump’s failed the American people. He refused testing kits from the world health organisation and decided to use failed CDC testing kits that needed to be revised 🤣🤣😂US government rn is a joke
@Bryan McCarth what are you waiting for?
@Life Of Gy yh because those test kits are fake,ask spain
The good news is is when the pandemic is over we can warehouse the testing devices together along with the ventilators that will arrive too late.
yeah, i would say your joke could have been a good one but this pandemic will last more than a year or even more. so I would say we will put those in actual use.
“How the US fell behind in Corona testing.” But first this GMC advertisment.
Which car manufacturer was the first to get bailed out when Obama was in office?
Because US never got started.
@New Rock Scion
0:12 yeah that is weird to me because this coronavirus just started in December so in 2019 so and now the whole world is getting that so that is so bad you know the virus 🦠
They DO NOT TEST EVERYONE WITH SYMPTOMS ONLY THOSE WHO ARE SUPER SICK. IN COLLIER COUNTY FLORIDA, THEY STOPPED TESTING EXCEPT FORM THE ER WHICH NO WELL BUT SICK PERSON, A MEDICAL TERM MEANING YOU DO NOT NEED HOSPITALIZED, IS NOT BEING TESTED. I constantly hear our numbers are not bad….uh yea no kidding. One woman on FB who knows she has it has gone 4x to be tested and denied bec tests were not available.
I hope spring break was worth it!
CDCs fault, not Trump’s btw.
Here’s the scary thing:
1. The virus
2. *Common sense isn’t common*
Well I believe in one thing!
Common Sense is learned! When all of us are young we are inquisitive, we love touching and feeling things, and we are told NOT to touch this or that..so eventually we do and learn the hard way. IT is not inherited!
I know what you talking about though. Best comment so far IMHO!
@Delekham whats IMHO?
Common sense ain’t so common these day’s, brother. Nicely put sir.
Common sense is a foreign concept to liberals.
Angello Llucemo IMHO: abbreviation for “in my honest opinion”
Isn’t money highly contagious, considering how many people have touched it??
Yes it can be
do people still use cash these days? I almost always pay for things with the credit card.
Ima keep touching it 🤑
Simple answer: Politicians are prioritizing their own power before the people who gave it to them
@Jochs Trump and Pelosi are both evil.
@4MOL no democrat leaders in new york said “go out and gather in groups have fun” all democrats
@Rectal Bisque New Orleans also refused to cancel Mardi Gras and now have hundreds of cases and California didn’t shut down the beaches and are now threatening martial law. Enjoy it, democraps because y’all asked for it and now your precious leaders are repaying your blind loyalty with this virus!😂😂 it’s no coincidence that Democrat cities and states are the strongest affected by the virus.😂😂😂😂
Your simple answer is simply wrong
@Alexa-Rae Coppa yeah right…that idiot is NOT a doctor or a scientist
WE FELL BEHIND BC THEY ARE NOT TESTING UNLESS YOU’RE HOSPITALIZED.
Because our government failed to provide enough tests to the hospitals.
@E Glad we agree – lets get the government out of our medical system! The free market had tests available within a week.
That’s not true at all. I’ve been tested and I’m waiting 7 days on my results.
@JJoe Liberals aren’t going to like that, they are looking forward to free healthcare.
@E That’s not ther governments job. What they should do is get out of the damn way! Let us get this done!
What’s the point of having the “best” health care in the world when the citizens can’t afford it.
All costs related to the Wuhan virus are waived in the US, so affordability is not the problem (look at Italy) and most Americans are covered by their employers insurance
Would you rather be broke and alive or dead and have free healthcare?
@imbadwrench Amen from the UK
LOL definitely not the best
@S3ntry YT Yes. look how well italy’s health care system works. I do not want to model after that for sure.
1:05 Did she literally just say that the US has one of the best healthcare systems in the world? I think everyone knows that is the exact opposite.
she said ‘We always talk about how…’; I prefer to interpret her ‘we’ as meaning americans in general, which i have already accepted are braindead on average
Obama care…….
@African Warlord Obama Care. The one good thing in the healthcare system that Trump worked against in his arrogance
@Reen S the worst insurance offered in America
paint me shocked when the elite prioritize them selfs xD if health insurance were cheaper and regulations were lower things would be better but thanks to the government thats never gonna happen lol
even with all of the “stay at your home” and no more than 10 people in the same place people don’t listen and take this virus seriously
All the Gen Z kids going out during Spring Break and others that don’t think this is even a big deal.
Bills
You’re not wrong. I’m currently dating a woman who is a caretaker for multiple clients – yet she low keyed ridiculed me for wanting to stay isolated . I work from home and I’ll be damned if i get sick or lose my life over Netflix and chill.
@Thot Ramen Why should they? 9/11, weapons of mass destruction, swine flu, sars, bird flu, ect, ect. the MSM has lost all credibility.
Don’t worry everyone, everything will be just fine. This isn’t real.
The US does not have a true scope of the extent of this virus- they were aware of this issue 3 months ago!!!! Months and months behind , red tape and politics that’s why!
We dismissed it as another flu, then started testing people all throughout the country and the actual numbers are coming to light
Wow who would’ve thought that a governmental agency was incompetent….
Matt Dank which agency?
@Daya Levrio From the presidential agency on down!
This title should be…”How did MSM networks ratings tank when most of the US woke up?”