Today, under the leadership of President Trump, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing a large-scale procurement of U.S. Food and Drug Administration -authorized rapid point-of-care diagnostic test instruments and tests to be distributed to nursing homes in COVID-19 hotspot geographic areas with the United States. This initiative is a one-time procurement of devices and tests targeted to facilitate on-site testing among nursing home residents and staff.
Distribution will begin next week with nursing homes prioritized by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in their continuing effort to protect older adults. Each nursing home will receive one diagnostic test instrument and associated tests. Following initial distribution, nursing homes can procure additional tests directly from the respective manufacturers.
Both the Quidel Sofia and Sofia 2 Instruments and BD Veritor Plus Systems use antigen tests that can quickly detect fragments of proteins found on or within the virus by testing samples collected from the nasal cavity using swabs, providing results in minutes. Antigen tests will play a critical role in the fight against COVID-19 and will be essential to reach the Nation’s goal of testing millions of Americans each day.
US_FDA That only took 5 months
US_FDA no longer credible.
SecAzar US_FDA 6 months late. Trump administration has failed the American people. Virus response is a complete failure
US_FDA It's about fn time.
US_FDA Where was this four months ago? 🙄😬
US_FDA It does not matter if tests are incomplete, nor if PPE isn't available,does it?
US_FDA More importantly....
US_FDA Oh. 3 months late. Criminal negligence We will prosecute. Trump is a sociopathic mass murderer. Over 138,000 Americans killed by Trump’s criminal negligence & incompetence. Who are the accomplices ? TrumpGenocide
US_FDA Let's see how this plays out. We've been having major home health staffing issues in nursing home facilities.
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US_FDA will the data be available to the public?
US_FDA Where were you in April, you tool?
SecAzar US_FDA We now know why testing and hospitalizations s coming to you. TRUMP MANIPULATES U ALL THE TIME. AND YOUR FEALTY IS QUICK SHOW WHEN YOU ROUTINLY COVER FOR HIM. YOU ARENT EVEN A DOCTOR. YOU ARE A POLITICIAN. DISGRACEFUL.
US_FDA Little late. gop failure. TRUMP HAS NO PLAN. IT HAS BEEN MONTHS
US_FDA BREAKING: HHS gives in to the trump regime. All life saving information will be given to king trump and will not be shared with American citizens. Effectively making the U.S. a full blown banana republic
SecAzar US_FDA I think we all know how this is going to play out. It is every effing day with these people. November 3rd hurry up.
US_FDA That’s fake news. Complete trash like the HHS that’s only going to kill more people. Are you trying to set a world record?
SecAzar US_FDA Azar and Navarro are both nothing more than partisans hacks as well as grifters who’s only interest is self enrichment. They have only contempt for the American public and will never do what is in the interest of the nation as a whole.
US_FDA The CDC was too honest about COVID-19. The Trump admin must feel the HHS to be more pliable.
US_FDA How will we know?
Cabinet US_FDA trump you own this Coronavirus hospital data will now be sent to Trump administration instead of CDC
SecAzar US_FDA How can you stand by the decision to reroute the Covid-19 data to this administration, rather than the data being compiled by the CDC. Is this how you plan to flatten the curve? By manipulating data? You will all be responsible for the deaths of many Americans. Shame on you.
US_FDA “Crimson Contagion” :: TY
US_FDA What is the accuracy rate?
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alt_fda US_FDA About 4 months to late, but hey, the rest of us are still screwed!
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US_FDA We have been hearing similar pronouncements for months. More testing, better testing, everybody has PPEs, etc. all lies.
AHRQNews US_FDA Go away. Free the CDC to do its job.
Surgeon_General US_FDA Do they work?
US_FDA We will believe it when we see them! TotalIncompetence
US_FDA Did anybody maybe think about doing this 5 months ago? Or nah?
US_FDA I’m far more concerned about your “large-scale procurement” of COVID hospital data that you’re going to hide from the public to appease the lunatic in the WH!!
Cabinet US_FDA Why in the hell aren't you using plasma antibodies to make the at-risk population immune? Proven effective, lots of available donors, antibody half-life of 50 days. One treatment every 2 months they are safe until vaccine. Immunization is more important than testing.
SecAzar US_FDA It only took you 6 MONTHS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ “All the best people” have no fucking idea what they’re doing and Americans are dying at the hands of realDonaldTrump‼️ Our ‘hide in the bunker, inject them w bleach and slow the testing down’ non leader coronavirus
US_FDA NEWS: FDA shakedown for a corrupt industry.
US_FDA Tests show results too late. Give nursing homes' residents hydroxychloroquine + Zn prophylaxis. Treat them with HCQ+AZ+Zn early on clinical suspicions.
US_FDA AN AVALANCHE OF TRUTH IS COMING...UNSTOPPABLE...MEDIA AND DEMOCRATS LIED AND PEOPLE DIED...IT IS OK TO NOT KNOW THINGS...IT IS NOT OK TO CHOOSE TO NOT KNOW THINGS...CNN,MSNBC,ABC,CBS, ETC., ARE NOT NEWS. THEY ARE PARROTS, SPEWING THE GLOBALIST NARRATIVE OF THE DAY. CHOOSE TRUTH!!