The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

[ecofarm]

You know what? Even if I did read an article, I still don't think I could be convinced Biden did it to kill everyone.

 

[MamboDervish]

There is only one reason and one reason only Biden would refuse the test. He wants folks to spread the virus so everything can get locked down etc. That’s my opinion.

Yet another fevered dream from VySky. Biden, the president who MANDATED that everyone in the military, and every federal employee, get vaccinated, "wants folks to spread the virus".

??

You can't make this shit up.

 

[SMTA]

There is only one reason and one reason only Biden would refuse the test. He wants folks to spread the virus so everything can get locked down etc. That’s my opinion.
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On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing.

The 10-page plan, which Vanity Fair has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission. The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge.”

Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts—who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations—received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead.

The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusion, distrust...

www.vanityfair.com

Yet another post by you of worthless shit.

 

[Mr Person]

No one is actually taking VySky seriously, right?

 

[VySky]

Yet another fevered dream from VySky. Biden, the president who MANDATED that everyone in the military, and every federal employee, get vaccinated, "wants folks to spread the virus".

??

You can't make this shit up.

Yet Biden does it anyway

 

[Exquisitor]

There is only one reason and one reason only Biden would refuse the test. He wants folks to spread the virus so everything can get locked down etc. That’s my opinion.
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On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing.

The 10-page plan, which Vanity Fair has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission. The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge.”

Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts—who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations—received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead.

The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusion, distrust...

www.vanityfair.com

He was going to led, just like all you led poisoned misfits.

 

[anatta]

Just stop

you have confused an ANTIGEN test with an ANTIBODY test.

A rapid ANTIGEN test will tell if someone currently has covid, the ANTIBODY test tells if they had covid in the past

thank you for ending that confusion

 

[VySky]

I hope Dooce ask ole Red about it. Why would Biden not want Americans to test before the busiest travel time of the year? $$$$$$$

 

[holbritter]

No one is actually taking VySky seriously, right?

The report, perhaps. The messenger, absolutely not.

 

[BlueTex]

There is only one reason and one reason only Biden would refuse the test. He wants folks to spread the virus so everything can get locked down etc. That’s my opinion.
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On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing.

The 10-page plan, which Vanity Fair has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission. The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge.”

Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts—who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations—received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead.

The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusion, distrust...

www.vanityfair.com

Did you actually READ the article?

An administration official who attended the meeting told Vanity Fair that, while everyone present shared the same goal of expanding rapid testing as soon as possible, the plan could not be implemented at that time: “We did not have capacity to manufacture over-the-counter tests at that scale.” The problem, in essence, was twofold: The FDA had authorized only a handful of different home tests, and those it had authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough.

How effective a plan that can't be executed?

 

[VySky]

Did you actually READ the article?

An administration official who attended the meeting told Vanity Fair that, while everyone present shared the same goal of expanding rapid testing as soon as possible, the plan could not be implemented at that time: “We did not have capacity to manufacture over-the-counter tests at that scale.” The problem, in essence, was twofold: The FDA had authorized only a handful of different home tests, and those it had authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough.

How effective a plan that can't be executed?

Why did Biden not engage those who manufacture Rapid Testing like Trump did the auto makers re:Ventilators? That's the difference in being proactive vs reactive.

 

[BlueTex]

Why did Biden not engage those who manufacture Rapid Testing like Trump did the auto makers re:Ventilators? That's the difference in being proactive vs reactive.

How the hell do you know he didn't? How quickly could those manufactures scale up manufacturing? Can General Motors manufacture rapid tests?

 

[VySky]

How the hell do you know he didn't? How quickly could those manufactures scale up manufacturing? Can General Motors manufacture rapid tests?

Biden never told us if he tried. That would of made him look good. Being more like Trump in finding solutions instead of excuses

 

[ApersonLIKEallOFyou]

Why did Biden not engage those who manufacture Rapid Testing like Trump did the auto makers re:Ventilators? That's the difference in being proactive vs reactive.

The rest of the article kind of explains that, or tries to. My theory is that they weren’t ready to shift from “get the vaccine” to “take a test before you interact with others.”

 

[VySky]

The rest of the article kind of explains that, or tries to. My theory is that they weren’t ready to shift from “get the vaccine” to “take a test before you interact with others.”

It’s a death vaccine. That’s it. Prevents death in most cases. Other vaccines prevent infection. Why force a death vaccine on entire population where death only results in a statistically insignificant small portion of society?

 

[ApersonLIKEallOFyou]

It’s a death vaccine. That’s it. Prevents death in most cases. Other vaccines prevent infection. Why force a death vaccine on entire population where death only results in a statistically insignificant small portion of society?

It doesn't just protect against death. It also lessens the impact for those infected, decreasing severe effects and hospitalization.

 

[eohrnberger]

There is only one reason and one reason only Biden would refuse the test. He wants folks to spread the virus so everything can get locked down etc. That’s my opinion.
——

On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing.

The 10-page plan, which Vanity Fair has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission. The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge.”

Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts—who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations—received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead.

The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusion, distrust...

www.vanityfair.com

An example of Biden 'following the science' and 'listening to the experts'?
Just as in foreign policy, Biden's decision making fails.
Also in the news: Water is wet.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Yet another fevered dream from VySky. Biden, the president who MANDATED that everyone in the military, and every federal employee, get vaccinated, "wants folks to spread the virus".

??

You can't make this shit up.

There's also the problematic part of Biden having rejected one proposal but going with another one (which is the current plan) due to concerns around scaling supply to deliver the amount of tests the cited proposal recommended. That said, I don't think the current plan makes it particularly easy for people to get tested because anyone who has ever had to contact their health insurance provider to get reimbursed for anything, knows what a god awful hassle that is.

 

[ElChupacabra]

An example of Biden 'following the science' and 'listening to the experts'?
Just as in foreign policy, Biden's decision making fails.
Also in the news: Water is wet.

The thing is the particular experts in question weren't looking at this from a manufacturing and distribution perspective; in much the same way as what medical experts recommend in a pandemic like this one, is for people to isolate. The government has to then decide what is the most effective method given a broader variety of constraints other than just what experts from a particular field recommend.

 

[eohrnberger]

The thing is the particular experts in question weren't looking at this from a manufacturing and distribution perspective; in much the same way as what medical experts recommend in a pandemic like this one, is for people to isolate. The government has to then decide what is the most effective method given a broader variety of constraints other than just what experts from a particular field recommend.

Fair, the medical experts are siloed in their specialized disciplines and probably didn't, or were not able to, consider the realities of manufacturing and distribution at that scale.

On the other hand, if a decision to proceed with manufacturing and distribution at that scale was made in October, we wouldn't be here now with as much of a shortage as we apparently have, the additional manufacturing and distribution probably coming on line, or nearly online.

Leadership comes with making decisions with partial and imperfect information, and good leadership gets it 'right' more often than it gets it 'wrong'. Biden's leadership seems to get it wrong far more often than they get it right.

 

[Deuce]

So am I to understand that conservatives are now mad that Joe Biden didn't spend more taxpayer dollars on covid control measures?

 

[ecofarm]

I hope Dooce ask ole Red about it. Why would Biden not want Americans to test before the busiest travel time of the year? $$$$$$$

The OP is pretending to still not understand the test in question. That's intentional ignorance. Malevolent misinformation.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Fair, the medical experts are siloed in their specialized disciplines and probably didn't, or were not able to, consider the realities of manufacturing and distribution at that scale.

Yep. In much the same way economists would think of this mitigating pandemic issues in a very different way.

On the other hand, if a decision to proceed with manufacturing and distribution at that scale was made in October, we wouldn't be here now with as much of a shortage as we apparently have, the additional manufacturing and distribution probably coming on line, or nearly online.

What the article doesn't go into is that the Biden Administration has used the DPA to expedite the production of vaccines and testing materials, but a big part of the problem is the issue with supply chains caused by the pandemic. We would have to know what additional resources would be required if there were to be a scale up in production to what's already in place and if those materials can be obtained.

Leadership comes with making decisions with partial and imperfect information, and good leadership gets it 'right' more often than it gets it 'wrong'. Biden's leadership seems to get it wrong far more often than they get it right.

I think in this particular case it may not be them getting it wrong, but working with what they have at hand. I think an error in judgment would be if they completely dropped the ball on scaling up production through the means available to them, but there are other constraints. What I do think was daft was Biden stating in an interview that no one saw this coming. Medical professionals have been talking about new, potentially more transmissible variants for a while now; mainly due to low vaccination rates in other parts of the world.

 

[Helix]

Did they have free pre-holiday tests in Russia?

 

[VySky]

Did they have free pre-holiday tests in Russia?