Quote Originally Posted by Sonora Shepherd View Post
The Oregonian this morning says that Oregon is testing 1,500 people a day. They could test more but the parameters are too restrictive. I don't get it. This fits what people in our hospital are saying. We just aren't testing enough people.
Andrew Cuomo explained it pretty well the other day. Seems there are lots of different manufacturers with proprietary reagents, etc. and none of them work together and no one's in charge, of course, and you can't get the supplies and reagents you need, etc. etc. Ah. the glories of capitalism. If we had a functioning federal government, they could have taken charge (Defense Production Act, anyone?) a couple of months ago.