Bill Gates: America Offers The Most Worthless COVID-19 Test Results In The World

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-coronavirus-tests_n_5f309c84c5b6b9cff7f391f8

Bill Gates continued his unbridled criticism of the United States’ response to the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, calling America’s testing system “insanity” and stressing that the country was now facing “a pretty dramatic price” both in human death and wasted money.

Speaking with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Gates said it takes far too long to receive coronavirus test results in the U.S.

“You can’t get the federal government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is,” the Microsoft co-founder-turned-philanthropist said. “I’ve said to them, look, have a CDC website that prioritizes who gets tested. That’s trivial to do. They won’t pay attention to that. I’ve said don’t reimburse any tests where the result goes back after three days. You’re paying billions of dollars in this very inequitable way to get the most worthless test results of any country in the world.”

On the topic of America’s lockdowns, Gates pointed to countries in the European Union that faced the coronavirus outbreak earlier than the U.S. and instituted more coordinated lockdowns.

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[cayugafalls]

1. Test results after 3 days are worthless because you can't do proper contact tracing.

This is a failure on a monumental scale and I am happy that he is calling it out.

The sad fact of the matter is that trump and the republicans do not care if more Americans die.

They. Just. Don't. Care.

[Nevilledog]

2. You. Are. Correct.