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He handles the pandemic as if it's reality TV where you can just declare medical tests into existence:

“That’s a whole new ballgame,” Trump said. “I want to thank Abbott Labs for the incredible work they’ve done. They’ve been working around-the-clock.”

Yet a document circulated among officials at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week shows that state and local public health labs were set to receive a total of only 5,500 coronavirus tests.

That number falls well short of the “about 500,000 capacity of Abbott tests that” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said were in the states and were “not being utilized.”

https://khn.org/news/trump-touted-abbotts-quick-covid-19-test-hhs-document-shows-only-5500-are-on-way-for-entire-u-s/

Date: 2020-04-06 06:10 pm (UTC)
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он.

Date: 2020-04-06 09:38 pm (UTC)
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To add some slapstick comedy to the disgrace, the test kit was shown upside down.



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