Display MoreNew York City doctor says he has to ‘plead to test people’ for coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/0…plead-to-test-people.html
Lots of interesting technical comments in the video portion. This doctor thinks there are thousands of undiagnosed cases in the U.S. He seems to be an expert who knows what he is talking about. QUOTES from text portion:
“Before I came here this morning, I was in the emergency room seeing patients,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I still do not have a rapid diagnostic test available to me.”
“I’m here to tell you, right now, at one of the busiest hospitals in the country, I don’t have it at my fingertips,” he said. “I still have to make my case, plead to test people. This is not good. We know that there are 88 cases in the United States. There are going to be hundreds by the middle of the week. There’s going to be thousands by next week. And this is a testing issue.”
The team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital is isolating suspected coronavirus patients and taking proper precautions to prevent the spread, McCarthy said, but “they’re hamstrung.” . . .
“They’re testing 10,000 a day in some countries, and we can’t get this off the ground,” McCarthy said. “I’m a practitioner on the firing line, and I don’t have the tools to properly care for patients today.” . . .
I honestly think there's an ongoing, politically driven and deliberate attempt to calm down the masses, but hiding information will cause exactly the opposite side. If you look at the CDC web page dedicated to Covid 19, today the page was modified and the number of tested patients is no longer available.
It is probably stupidity, but in this case, is ill willed stupidty.