Bob-San Francisco hospital offering drive-through coronavirus testing

Only 6 weeks behind the curve!

Testing procedures were designed by the CDC and NIH. You think they attract the best and the brightest medical and logistical minds? They are the phucking deep state bureaucracy. What they attract is incompetent leftard bureaucrat wannabes whose chief interests are status and turf. Trump asked them if they had all they needed in January. They said yes. After this is over he should fire the lot of them and outsource the damn thing.

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Why Have So Few Americans Been Tested for Coronavirus?

After problems arose with the C.D.C.’s test, officials could have switched to using successful tests that other countries were already using. But the officials refused to do so, essentially because it would have required changing bureaucratic procedures.

The federal government could also have eased regulations on American hospitals and laboratories, to allow them to create and manufacture their own tests, as Melissa Miller of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine told The Washington Post. But federal officials did not do so for weeks.

On Facebook, Virginia Postrel observes, “The people who screwed this up weren’t Trumpites. They were the pros.”

How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse: FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.

WestlinnDuck said:

Testing procedures were designed by the CDC and NIH. You think they attract the best and the brightest medical and logistical minds? They are the phucking deep state bureaucracy. What they attract is incompetent leftard bureaucrat wannabes whose chief interests are status and turf. Trump asked them if they had all they needed in January. They said yes. After this is over he should fire the lot of them and outsource the damn thing.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

Why Have So Few Americans Been Tested for Coronavirus?

After problems arose with the C.D.C.’s test, officials could have switched to using successful tests that other countries were already using. But the officials refused to do so, essentially because it would have required changing bureaucratic procedures.

The federal government could also have eased regulations on American hospitals and laboratories, to allow them to create and manufacture their own tests, as Melissa Miller of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine told The Washington Post. But federal officials did not do so for weeks.

On Facebook, Virginia Postrel observes, “The people who screwed this up weren’t Trumpites. They were the pros.”

How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse: FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.

Nope...This administration has been systematically undermining our government's ability to deal effectively and quickly with this kind of crisis since day one. Furthermore, where they haven't outright eliminated the agencies and infrastructure that the previous administration bolstered, they have worked hard to cut funding and dis-empower the true experts, placing totally unqualified yes men in leadership roles (those would be the federal officials you reference above). The "Deep State" you want to blame is full of dedicated medical experts who have been sounding the alarm up the chain for years . The Trump administration was and is deaf to this. They own it. Trump owns it. The rank and file look for leadership and empowerment to act from the top down. What they got was a clear message to shut up and not piss off the boss. Fuck, this administration can't even roll out a prepared speech and get their facts right.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/