We're working on an open source ventilator project back in Ireland if you're interested in getting involvedhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/03/18/theres-a-shortage-of-ventilators-for-coronavirus-patients-so-this-international-group-invented-an-open-source-alternative-thats-being-tested-next-week/amp/ …
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Yup - the US totally failed at scaling up testing capacity for the population. We are literally working day and night to fix this
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Num tested per million people is probably an even more important metric, and, from the
@OurWorldInData CSV download, here's how the US is doing on that one. Catastrophic leadership failure. I hope we all remember this come November.pic.twitter.com/Rv8cucWACC
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It’s quite silly to test on a per million basis. We need to test the peopkk Li d who are sick, or connected to those tested for COVID19.
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What’s this obsession over testing? Will the people be retested following week? And the week after? Isn’t the idea of tests to verify serious cases to determine treatment priority? Someone plz enlighten me.
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It’s to be strategic in locating medical supplies, and services to areas hardest hit, separate/quarantine infectious areas to prevent further contamination. To identify asymptomatic people who are shedding the virus without even being aware they’re carriers, and isolating them.
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Is there any article/analysis or why the U.S. can't scale the testing as fast as other countries? Is it an incentives problem, policy problem, logistics problem, we don't have smart scientists problem, or because a stupid guy is President?
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Given this matter is of material National consequence, one would expect a very streamlined, all hands on deck type of response. I mean if someone attacked the US right now, I am guessing we would have a much more efficient & streamlined response towards. So why _not_ a pandemic?
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UAE and Kuwait test foreign workers HIV and TB and send them home or revoke their visa if they test positive. They do have the infrastructure
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