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JT45242

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5. Selection -- based on limited test availability

Reply to tiredtoo (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2020, 12:28 PM

May 2020

Best guess is there is a very small amount of tests available so they have only been given to the absolute worst cases.

If you only test the people who are already hospitalized or in risk of ICE then there is goingto be a very non-representative sample of people getting a test.

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Any ideas why Michigan has more deaths by case then any other state? [View all] tiredtoo May 2020 OP

Just guessing..........mmmmmmmomomon... jaxexpat May 2020 #1

LACK OF TESTING sfstaxprep May 2020 #2

Because it was allowed to fester. Getting no real acknowledgement from whitehouse gibraltar72 May 2020 #3

Don't Waste Your Time Trying To Explain To Neanderthal Cult Member sfstaxprep May 2020 #4

Selection -- based on limited test availability JT45242 May 2020 #5

because llashram May 2020 #6

I think you win! jaxexpat May 2020 #8

According to the latest numbers, that is untrue... demmiblue May 2020 #7

The very definiton of a tRUMPER is "insanity". They don't have any credibility whatever so abqtommy May 2020 #9

They don't. See the following: sinkingfeeling May 2020 #10