''It means calling people, finding who they have been in contact with and then contacting these individuals and having individuals quarantine at home for 14 days and have them call in to see if they report symptoms,'' said Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins and one of the lead authors of a recent study from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The Johns Hopkins study recommends investing $3.6 billion to hire and train 100,000 contact tracing personnel. The new report goes even further, recommending hiring hundreds of thousands of contact tracers.The key, experts say, is testing and tracing fast enough so that the virus doesn’t spread; getting the time frame down from days to hours.
People are checked in at a newly set up COVID-19 testing site in Brooklyn, New York, April 16, 2020. New York City is still the epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease outbreak in the United States.
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Since Trump is unlikely to do much on helping states with testing, Democratic governors on both coasts, whose states are facing severe Covid-19, should form a joint task force to coordinate purchase and supply of all PPE and testing gear.
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I don't think folks understand how a supply chain works. This equipment and these reagents don't POOF in to existence. The equipment isn't just laying around. It doesn't install and validate itself. The market is doing the best it can and shutting down the economy isn't helping
If you test negative--you don't have the virus & you won't get the virus, so a person can go to work, thats the consensus of the experts. I don't buy that.
The whole point was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. Now it’s just a matter of moving the goal posts to keep that boot on the necks of the people
WhereAreTheTests ?
This testing requirement is complete BS on twelve different levels of hospitalizations is what counts, and if a state like Ohio is only seeing 50-100 new hospitalizations per day that’s a metric you can plan around
Govt will now have everyone's DNA in order to work?
Idiocy............ Not enough manpower to administer 20 million test per day. Stretching, 2 million might be doable and would take 60days with - ZERO - Retesting
Conspiracy theories. The truth is all states have enough tests to enter stage one of reopening the economy.
Who going to pay for the 320 million testing? China?
This is far far more than just about a virus. Tracking your every move is the bottom line. Watch..... What better way to chip and track you than through an innocent medical procedure (so they say).
Trump will never allow it.
Road map to recovery maybe Trump & his administration needs Gully Flushing out.Gully Flushing out may help flush away smell within,any good Gully Flushing outters out there-your country need you-to start flushing straight away-.Watch out virus is about.
And all those fuvkers have jobs
beyerstein Trump makes death smile.
This sounds ominous, but factual and promising once you look at the bigger picture. Test, Trace, Isolate. HouseDemocrats SenateDems GOP
Tell that to Gerorgia and South Carolina!
They want tests, then vaccinations, then chips. It is so not hard to see the agenda.
Are we hitting the necessary number of deaths for population control?
To save some space, could you please list people who thinks the opposite? I think majority of this country thinks we need widespread testing.
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Exactly, but political opportunism and human illiteracy don’t allow this. Politicians need to continue saving lives in order to get reelected, and human beings are too stupid to understand wahetever. What a disappointing world!
This is a crutch. The left is losing the lockdown (and likely the election), so get ready for a parade of unattainable demands designed to slow the reopening. This stuff is so obvious.
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So I get tested and it doesn't show that I have the CCPVirus. But two days after I get tested I have it. Sorry but people who should be tested are those who are showing symptoms of CCPVirus
20 million a day? Are you insane?
What other countries in the world have done close to that? None.
Once again abc news anonymous sources!!!!
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Random testing, of at most .5% of the US population monthly is more than adequate. Between that and diligent point of care reporting, you would have a very good handle on what is occurring on the ground. Then roll out more testing for a hotspot.
Economists, social scientists, lawyers, and ethicists. Whatever happened to 'Why isn't tRUMP listening to Fauci and Birx?'
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20 millions tests per day is simply impossible. We don’t have enough manpower and resources to do that. And who are lawyers,social scientists to determine how many tests should a country do? What happened to listen to scientists?
There is a growing hatred of the elites and journalists who push their ideas on Americans.
What’s the denominator? Lethality can not be accurate until the denominator is accurate. Santa Clara (Stanford U, published in Harvard) conducted a scientific study of 3,000+ persons that indicates the denominator may be 50-80 times higher than what is currently reported.
maggieNYT They all call for testing. Trump seems incapable of doing what it takes to make widespread testing happen.
No doctors Wtf?
But that would be like spending money on the little people, something Republicans are loath to do.
maggieNYT From the medical, economic, and sociological journal No Shit!
Was everyone tested for H1N1 or any other virus ? Why now? What are they using all these test on non ill people for ? Are we being profiled?
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Goal post moved huh? I dont remember this talking point a week ago
I wonder how many people are needed just to administer 20 million tests per day.
Social scientists lol
That they're still talking about it indicates complete lack of preparedness on our leaders part and danger for their citizens.
Lawyers don’t know anything about epidemiology
We aren’t interested in your left wing activist “scientists”. What fake news and the Dems are really afraid of is the economy starting to rebound before November.
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They don't want to tell us that the chemicals they use to test come from China. Because our idiot leaders and donor class let them outsource all this stuff. There is a shortage. You are not going to get widespread testing. We will get more. But not millions.............
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“More than 45” - does that mean 46, 47, 48....?
So we should keep testing until the election because the Democrats have an anti-American agenda? WalkAway
“Social Scientists” ........
maggieNYT You can test negative but a few days or weeks later test positive. You could test for antibodies but if you’ve had an exposure they have no idea yet if you have an immunity or not or how long that immunity would last.🤷🏻♀️
As ACPinternists recommended on Friday:
How is this mass scale testing going to work? The expense will be astronomical. Wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on the therapeutics to treat those who are ill and testing samples for antibodies within the population? Early antibody testing is indicating herd immunity is near
And somehow we've known this since last month. Maybe THIS should be the narrative not whatever garbage our outclassed President is spewing?
Ignorance is a very big illness. Testing is not treating as they are using the testing to spread the Covid19 pandemic
maggieNYT But if they test then they have to report the results and they won’t be good. As realDonaldTrump VP and jaredkushner already know. SenateGOP
maggieNYT No sh!t!!
the dentists have been wearing this type of mask even before this stupid virus.
maggieNYT how many hold a Bachelor of Science degree?
maggieNYT All the reagents are made and shipped from other countries. Every other nation is also clamoring for them. We're not going to have the kind of testing we need before the lockdowns become untenable, so people need to get ready for that.
maggieNYT Imagine, haven’t we been asking for this since . . . . I don’t know March?