
As a lab science director myself, I find this number especially surprising given that most PCR genetic analysis instruments use sample well plates that allow for batch testing of 96 samples at a time. The sample trays for this are called "96-well plates," and they're standard across all laboratories that conduct gene sequencing testing / PCR analysis.
This means the entire number of cases tested by the CDC could fit in fewer than five instrument runs, at a cost of only a few thousand dollars in total (including the sample prep media, pipette tips, etc.).
The number is so small, I could have run these tests in my own lab with a single gene sequencer instrument from Thermo, which only costs about $150,000.
The CDC's budget for FY 2020 is $6,594,000,000.
Yes, that's $6.6 billion.
So out of $6.6 billion, they can't find the means to test more than a few hundred Americans for the coronavirus?
That's insane. But it gets worse...
Why hasn't Hawaii tested anyone for the virus? Hawaii state officials claim they're waiting for test kits from the CDC.
It's sort of like the old "dog ate my homework" excuse, but for a global pandemic.
The CDC, as mentioned above, isn't sending any replacement kits to anyone, even as the days tick by and everybody is wondering just how many Americans really might be infected at this point.
So we decided to poke around and find out how many U.S. states have tested zero people for the virus. It turns out that number is 47.
"California, Nebraska and Illinois are the only U.S. states that can currently test for coronavirus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) told Reuters on Friday," reported CNBC.com yesterday.
Wait... what?
Yes, 47 states have no test kits and apparently no ability to test anyone. (Are they all scientifically illiterate? Do they not have gene sequencing instruments in their state health labs? Has America already collapse to the point where the people running all the science labs are incompetent to the point of suicide? Geesh...)
The CDC still hasn't sent out any replacements, of course. From the CNBC story:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week said some of the testing kits sent to U.S. states and at least 30 countries produced “inconclusive” results due to a flawed component and the CDC planned to send replacement materials to make the kits work.
But when, exactly? The CDC doesn't seem to be in any particular hurry to make the test kits work. And this is what allows Dr. Nancy Messonnier to claim the CDC, "hasn't seen any community outbreaks" so far.
Of course they haven't. Nobody's doing any real testing.
By definition, there will be no community outbreaks in America for as long as nobody conducts any testing.
A rational person might think the CDC's flow chart would demand testing for anyone showing symptoms that might match the known profile of this CoVid-19 coronavirus. But apparently that would make way too much sense. Instead, those people are prohibited from being tested if they acquired the infection from an unknown super spreader in the United States.
Looking at the Washington State Dept. of Health website today, we find that health authorities there have somehow found the resources to test TWO more person (28 total) while releasing 100 people from the "health supervision" watchlist even though none of those 100 people have been tested.
So in the State of Washington, 100 people can be released from the watch list without ever being tested?
Indeed, yes. This is how public health works when governments are run by incompetent bureaucrats. It's almost like a scene ripped right out of Idiocracy.
In the worst pandemic the modern world has ever seen, the entire State of Washington is testing about one person per day. It basically borders on criminal negligence.
If 35-50 patients known to be infected are being moved out of one Air Force base in California, it's obviously to make room for an influx of newly infected patients being relocated there. If Travis Air Force Base is being overrun in California, what's happening to the facilities in Omaha and San Antonio, too?
The CDC is already warning U.S. hospitals to prepare for a "surge" in coronavirus patients, and they've issued that warning because they know a surge is coming since they already have over 1,000 confirmed patients mapped out across America. But of course the CDC isn't telling the public, and it's very likely they are withholding the coronavirus test kits in order to make sure U.S. states can't actually confirm any infections.
This tactic of creating artificial scarcity in the test kits, by the way, is exactly how the communist regime of China kept their own infection numbers artificially low from the very beginning. We learned through a variety of sources that fewer than 1 out of 10 patients showing pneumonia-like symptoms were able to be tested in Wuhan hospitals, and even then the detected, confirmed coronavirus infections were exploding on an exponential basis.
The CDC, it seems, is borrowing a playbook right out of the communist handbook of medical propaganda and public deception.
There's no word on the status of the "replacement" test kits, as you might expect. They probably aren't even being produced. There's no intention in the USA to accurately test anyone, since doing so would require reporting those results to the public.
With the CDC now actively engaged in a coronavirus cover-up, and Big Tech censoring anyone who reports the truth, we have now entered an Orwellian phase of coordinated, authoritarian deception that's designed to deliberately keep the U.S. public in the dark about pandemic outbreaks which are already taking place on U.S. soil.
The net effect of that deception, of course, will be a rapid explosion in the number of infections across America -- which appears to be the goal of the people running all this, including the CDC which stands to receive a windfall of new funding and police state powers once the pandemic spreads across multiple U.S. cities.
The quarantines are coming in America. The medical police state is ready to be rolled out. CDC authorities are actively hiding infections from the public, even as they prepare armed CDC "quarantine teams" to kidnap and medically imprison people against their will.
Every nightmare scenario you've imagined over the last two decades is about to be unfurled. And the only voices telling you the truth are completely banned on every tech platform (be design, of course, as this was all coordinated in advance).
If you want to survive this, follow my work at Pandemic.news.
The CDC and "government officials" will get you killed, or imprisoned, or injured with a mandatory experimental vaccine at some point. Don't trust anything coming out of official sources, as it's now obvious they've all agreed to lie to the world as a way to maximize the spread of the pandemic.
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