Obviously, there are already home tests, but, here’s how Team Brandon does it
Biden admin touts $137M deal for COVID test strip factory the company says it will take 3 years to build https://t.co/yIUOgGNDGr
— Paul Conner (@paconner) December 30, 2021
From the link
The Biden administration has signed a $137 million contract with a pharmaceutical company for the purpose of building a factory for COVID-19 test strip materials, a White House official confirmed to FOX Business on Wednesday.
But the new facility will not start churning out the materials for three years, according to the company. If the timeline is correct, the deal will not alleviate the administration’s scramble to make more tests available in the near future amid a lack of supply for Americans. The administration is under fire for reportedly rejecting a deal in October that would have strongly ramped up the supply of COVID tests.
But the new facility will not start churning out the materials for three years, according to the company. If the timeline is correct, the deal will not alleviate the administration’s scramble to make more tests available in the near future amid a lack of supply for Americans. The administration is under fire for reportedly rejecting a deal in October that would have strongly ramped up the supply of COVID tests.
The three-year timeline also signals that the administration expects the need for tens of millions of such tests per month into 2024 or 2025 and beyond.
Reuters first reported that the White House inked the agreement with MilliporeSigma, a subsidiary of German firm Merck KGaA, not be confused with U.S. company Merck & Co.
“The money will allow the company over three years to build a new facility to produce nitrocellulose membranes, the paper that displays test results, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,” the outlet reported. “That, in turn, will allow for 85 million more tests to be produced per month, the official said.”
The whole idea was to make home tests readily available quickly. Trump (and other world leaders) was able to get vaccines available in less than a year (OK, they act more like 6 month flu shots, same as other nations were able to do), and Biden can’t get large amounts of test strips going for three years.
But, hey, there’s a problem with all this home testing, too
(NY Times) Millions of rapid at-home COVID tests are flying off pharmacy shelves across the country, giving Americans an instant, if sometimes imperfect, read on whether they are infected with the coronavirus.
But the results are rarely reported to public health departments, exacerbating the long-standing challenges of maintaining an accurate count of cases at a time when the number of infections is surging because of the omicron variant.
At the minimum, the widespread availability of at-home tests is wreaking havoc with the accuracy of official positivity rates and case counts. At the other extreme, it is one factor making some public health experts raise a question that once would have been unthinkable: Do counts of coronavirus cases serve a useful purpose, and if not, should they be continued?
Whoops! Makes it rather hard to track how many positive tests there have been. How is there any tracking and tracing? Sadly, that is something that really was necessary early on, but, you can understand the resistance, but, it could have eliminated a lot of the spread.
A short read to show you how the MSM is a paid shill of Big Pharma who spends billions in advertising dollars to support their crap and prevent competition. Here is a classic example of REUTERS casting doubt on Novavax before they even approach the FDA for EUA:
Novavax Inc will submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine next month, the company said on Friday.
The announcement follows submission of final data related to the vaccine’s manufacturing processes to the regulator, which was a prerequisite for the emergency use authorization application.
This indicates further delay for the vaccine developer, which said earlier this month it will make the submission for EUA by the end of the year.
Novavax has had to delay its U.S. submission multiple times due to development and manufacturing setbacks. A report earlier this year said the methods Novavax used to test the efficacy of its vaccine had fallen short of regulators’ standards.
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If a factory needs to be built, with a three-year lead time, to develop home COVID tests, it’s an admission that COVID will be with us for the long term, and the government knows it. More, they’ll be applying fear, fear! to try to dominate Americans’ lives for the next three years.
It’s something with which we’ll have to live, long-term, but the left will want to keep ordering masking and vaccine mandates and vaccine passports to exert government control.
William Teach: The whole idea was to make home tests readily available quickly.
Unless you think (wrongly) that this is the last pandemic the U.S. will ever experience, then preparing for the future is exactly what should happen.
Dana: it’s an admission that COVID will be with us for the long term
Of course, COVID-19 will be endemic in the future. Meanwhile, coronaviruses will continue to evolve and represent a pandemic threat.