Tag Archives: TESTING

Trump knew testing Covid-19 vaccines would take months, Woodward book shows

Trump also suggests that’s why he initially pushed so hard for the use of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, because the malaria drug had already been tested and approved for other uses. “Well, we’re doing great on vaccines,” Woodward quotes Trump as saying in his latest book, “Rage.” “The problem with a vaccine is a vaccine… Read More »

Inadequate COVID testing leaves New York City schools vulnerable

New York City has the largest public school system in the country. More than a million students, and tens of thousands of teachers, administrators, and support staff.  If you read the papers, the biggest issue is how to organize teaching. The debate is over on-line learning versus in-person learning and everything in between.  But, as… Read More »

Accuracy of U.S. coronavirus data thrown into question as decline in testing skews drop in new cases

A state-funded Covid-19 mobile testing site stands in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday Aug. 5, 2020. Jayme Gershen | Bloomberg | Getty Images For the first time in months, the daily growth of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. has steadily fallen over the past two weeks, giving some hope to U.S. officials who proclaimed… Read More »

AMA and others struggling to perform testing urge HHS to reprioritize COVID-19 guidelines

Testing shortages continue along with gaps in the supply chain for reagents, swabs, plastics, viral transport media and personal protection equipment, the American Medical Association and other health organizations told Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a letter sent today. The letter went out the day after HHS said it had… Read More »