We're currently testing 160K per day. How long will it take to scale this up to 20-35M tests per day.? There's reports of numerous supply shortages hampering testing capacity so how can we get manufacturing to ramp up to a scale of 25M-35M tests per day?
Are most test kits manufactured abroad? How many of the components are made here? What is the bottleneck? What is being done to improve the supply?
Is the problem exacerbated by overseas manufacturing and we are competing with other countries for those supplies?
Has the Fed gov't offered incentives to increase domestic manufacturing to compensate for higher mfg costs?
<That’s true even if the test isn’t perfect at identifying spreaders. >
I would not hold onto this! We need high sensitivity (with LOW false negative) tests that can detect infection at earliest onset! Before infected person become *spreader*!
Pence on Meet the Press said doubling tests to 300K per day would be sufficient to test anyone with symptoms and those who are vulnerable. Way short of 5M /day models project to be the minimum needed. Would not answer why the Feds are leaving it up to the states or why Feds don't have a national plan to increase testing capacity. After clips of 6 governors (3 Rep + 3 Dem) played complaining about the Fed lack of help, cooperation and leadership...just bragged about how much they're doing.
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