What about the new report from Australia of a 20-minute test? Does it only work "down under"?

It has been 6 MONTHS since the COVID situation started.

The White House is saying it working on a PLAN to respond to this situation.

At the same time, it looks to try to shift blame for its failures to anybody and double speaks. Trump says he is responsible for responding but also says he is not responsible for the failure.

In so far as "test pooling" that is done when the scientists know they cannot provide enough resources to properly test all people. The REAL problem with this approach is that medical privacy laws are violated when mixing test samples. The others in the test group that test negative are assumed positive until proven otherwise.

My expertise with HIPPA tells me this is a violation of the HIPPA process. Mixing multiple samples from different people are not allowed. Thus this is just a desperate attempt to minimize the use of reagents because there isn't enough produced to achieve the timely testing we need.

Even if a test could complete in 20 minutes, it requires the reagents to be processed. The fact is that this country cannot produce them enough even with the implementation of the Defense Production Act. The facts are our testing delays of greater than 24 hours make contact tracing impossible.

Thus we are simply counting the sick and the dead and achieving nothing in return.

This problem is not going away until we start taking it seriously. But so far we have failed to do so.

I was tested in East PA last Friday using the POC method, which is meant to be give results on the spot, I was told 7 days.... been 6 days still waiting.

In response to To Business Man:

This means there is NO CONTACT TRACING going on in Santa Clara County.

YIKES.

The most important part of the process is contact tracing. Without it we are blind regarding spread. This is basic epidemiology.

I am also confused whether there is mislabeling deaths in the state of California, given that COVID tests are not done on all deaths. There is no scientific basis to determine we are getting an accurate count. Most likely many doctors are not reporting many deaths as COVID because the people were never tested for it.

I think we are not getting any accurate results at this time, but it is definitely an under counted problem.