Daily Mail: Donald Trump throws coronavirus travel ban into MORE chaos by saying Americans will NOT be allowed back into the country if they test positive and quarantine will be 'enforced' despite Pence insisting all US citizens can come home
* Trump said firmly that Americans who test positive won't be allowed to come home if they are in Europe
* He offered no further information like who would then care for the sick or which tests would be used
* Vice President Mike Pence did a round of interviews Thursday to try to answer questions on coronavirus
* He revealed that all Americans returning from Europe now will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days
* He also said anyone returning to the US will be 'funneled' through one of 13 airports - but he did not say where those were or whether all those passengers would receive COVID-19 tests
* Reuters reports they are the 11 US airbases that were approved by the military as quarantine bases plus two
* Trump announced on Wednesday night that flights from the majority of Europe would be suspended for 30 days from midnight on Friday
* But the banned list does not include the UK or Ireland, for reasons the White House is yet to explain
* Pence also revealed that private labs had been asked to mass produce tests 'at the direction of the president'
* Lab Corp and Quest Diagnostics have both developed tests for the virus and are ramping up production
* The NBA has suspended its season and the State Department has advised against unnecessary travel
* Actor Tom Hanks revealed on Wednesday night that both he and his wife Rita Wilson both have the virus
* The announcement wreaked havoc on the global markets and the Dow opened down 1,700 points Thursday
* There are currently 1,364 people with coronavirus in the US and more than 125,000 cases globally
President Trump raised fresh questions surrounding his response to the coronavirus on Thursday by saying that Americans in Europe will be tested for coronavirus before they are allowed to board flights and that they will not be allowed to come home if they test positive.
The shocking announcement came after his decision to halt all travel from Europe to the US for 30 days starting from Friday at midnight.
During a press conference with the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office, Trump said: 'We are not putting them on planes if they test positive. It is going to be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine,' he said, without explaining which tests would be used or where the diagnosed cases would then be treated overseas.
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39 people dead in the US from Corona Flu
26 of them from a single building. ll of those 26 were elderly with serious health problems already.
39 - 26 = 13
90% of people could have done that math in their heads, but I had to do it for the liberals amongst us. You know, liberals the functionally illiterate amongst us.
13 people dead and there is a panic? Some of those 13 were elderly from a nursing home in California.
Libtards are using this to create fear to further their acquisition of power.
This was not a speech. This was a cry for help, an SOS from a guy who knows, as Micheal Ray Richardson once put it, that the ship be sinking. You could almost imagine thousands of tiny feet running for lifeboats behind his eyes. You could see him reacting to storm sirens only he could hear. He is thrashing and floundering and he is surrounded by thrashers and flounderers who owe their entire careers to him now. This isn’t chaos. It is surrender to it.
President Trump Addresses Nation From White House On Coronavirus
This was a cry for help.
Imagine if, in his address to the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy had announced a naval blockade of, say, Jamaica, and then had to walk it back minutes later to explain that he meant Cuba. That’s what we had Wednesday night when, minutes after the cameras in the Oval Office went dark, the White House had to rush out explanations that the president*, in discussing his own new policy proposals, didn’t know what in the hell he was talking about.
anon: tell that to Wall Street
numbers man: the market knows much less than you do, right¿
check your portfolio and figure the numbers today
Despite insistent promises from the Trump administration, coronavirus testing in the United States appears to be proceeding with a marked lack of urgency. An examination of state and federal records by Yahoo News finds that American states are, on average, testing fewer than 100 people per day — while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tested fewer than 100 people total in the first two days of this week.
Meanwhile, a single private lab is performing tests, according to a trade group representing such facilities. The administration has repeatedly said that private enterprise would play a critical role in making sure that all Americans who need a coronavirus test receive one.
U.S. officials on Tuesday were faced with an onslaught of questions from members of Congress, amid reports of South Korea’s drive-through coronavirus testing locations.
“This is not a problem we can test our way out of,” said Stephen Redd, MD, head of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, in testimony on Wednesday. It was an admission that, in a nation of 320 million, testing every person will be impossible.
TRUMP TELLS THREE LIES IN TV SPEECH
rampant.
1) Europe travel ban: Trump said Americans will be exempt "who have undergone appropriate screenings."
His words caused people in Europe to buy tickets at premium prices back to the U.S. in a panic, per the Washington Post.
But it will only apply to foreign nationals who have been in the Schengen region of Europe within 14 days of arrival in the U.S. It does not apply to permanent U.S. residents, citizens or immediate family of citizens, per the Department of Homeland Security.
2) Health insurers: "Have agreed to waive all copayments for coronavirus treatments," Trump said.
But insurers have agreed to wave copayments for testing, not treatment.
3) Trade: The White House walked back Trump's statement that the travel restrictions "apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval."
"Meanwhile, a single private lab is performing tests, according to a trade group representing such facilities. The administration has repeatedly said that private enterprise would play a critical role in making sure that all Americans who need a coronavirus test receive one."
(As of March 10, 2020, at least 78 state and local health labs in the US have testing capacity, according to Association of Public Health Laboratories.)
Thanks for spreading old news (and stoking fear), keep up the good work.
,,,
anon: bullshit
here are the facts
As many as 40 state public health labs could begin testing for the COVID-19 virus using parts of the test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as early as this week, according to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL).
"As of now: @CDCgov & @US_FDA developed a new protocol using 2 of 3 components of original test kit. Many public health labs are able to use the original kit w/out problem component to begin testing as soon as this week," APHL said on its Twitter feed.
Earlier this month, the CDC's rollout of test kits was delayed after problems were found with some the kits' reagent. The APHL wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Feb 24, asking the agency for enforcement discretion to allow state and local public health labs the ability to create a laboratory-developed test for the detection of the novel coronavirus.
Although prior COVID-19 test kits had already been created, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insisted on developing its own.
That led to time-consuming setbacks that have created a country-wide shortage of tests, leaving some sick people turned away.
In response, academic hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic have been developing supplemental tests to make them more widely available as the number of novel Coronavirus cases continues to rise in the U.S.
There's a massive shortage of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) test kits in the U.S., as cases continue to skyrocket in places like Seattle and New York City. This is largely due to the failure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to distribute the tests in a timely fashion.
But it didn't have to be this way. Back in January and February—when cases of the deadly disease began aggressively circulating outside of China—diagnostics already existed in places like Wuhan, where the pandemic began. Those tests followed World Health Organization (WHO) test guidelines, which the U.S. decided to eschew.
Instead, the CDC created its own in-depth diagnostics that could identify not only COVID-19, but a host of SARS-like coronaviruses. Then, disaster struck: When the CDC sent tests to labs during the first week of February, those labs discovered that while the kits did detect COVID-19, they also produced false positives when checking for other viruses. As the CDC went back to the drawing board to develop yet more tests, precious time ticked away.
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