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A New Partnership with Private Sector To Vastly Increase and Accelerate Our Capacity To Test for the Coronavirus
A New Partnership with Private Sector To Vastly Increase and Accelerate Our Capacity To Test for the Coronavirus
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Doug Mcmillon from Walmart
Doug Mcmillon from Walmart
59:39
Breaking Chains of Transmission
Breaking Chains of Transmission
1:16:27
Breaking Chains of Transmission
1:16:27
I Want To Ask You about the European Travel Ban That Goes into Effect at Midnight Tonight and the Exemption That You'Ve Offered to the Uk There Are 17 Countries That Are in the So-Called Schengen Zone That Have Fewer Coronavirus Cases than the Uk and Just in the Past 24 Hours the Uk Has Added 208 Coronavirus Cases to Their Total Why Do They Mr President Deserve an Exemption and Would You Consider Adding Them to this Travel Ban List Well That Was Recommended to Me by a Group of Professionals and We Are Looking at It Based on the New Numbers That Are Coming Out
I Want To Ask You about the European Travel Ban That Goes into Effect at Midnight Tonight and the Exemption That You'Ve Offered to the Uk There Are 17 Countries That Are in the So-Called Schengen Zone That Have Fewer Coronavirus Cases than the Uk and Just in the Past 24 Hours the Uk Has Added 208 Coronavirus Cases to Their Total Why Do They Mr President Deserve an Exemption and Would You Consider Adding Them to this Travel Ban List Well That Was Recommended to Me by a Group of Professionals and We Are Looking at It Based on the New Numbers That Are Coming Out
1:24:44
The Nature of Our Current System Where the Cdc Has Samples Sent and Tests Are Perform or State Labs Perform Tests or in some Cases University and Hospital Labs Perform Tests It's Generally Adequate for Infectious Disease or for People Getting at Diagnostic Work Done but Given the Sheer Scale of this the President Tasked Us with Bringing Together this Extraordinary Public and Private Partnership Today by some Estimates When You Add All the Labs Together and Today the President Made It Possible for every State in the Country and Their State Labs To Authorize Labs across Their State To Do Coronavirus
The Nature of Our Current System Where the Cdc Has Samples Sent and Tests Are Perform or State Labs Perform Tests or in some Cases University and Hospital Labs Perform Tests It's Generally Adequate for Infectious Disease or for People Getting at Diagnostic Work Done but Given the Sheer Scale of this the President Tasked Us with Bringing Together this Extraordinary Public and Private Partnership Today by some Estimates When You Add All the Labs Together and Today the President Made It Possible for every State in the Country and Their State Labs To Authorize Labs across Their State To Do Coronavirus
1:46:11
Today by some Estimates When You Add All the Labs Together and Today the President Made It Possible for every State in the Country and Their State Labs To Authorize Labs across Their State To Do Coronavirus Testing We'Re Estimating Somewhere between 15 and 20 Thousand Tests a Day Are Able To Be Performed but Very Soon with with the Program That Was Announced Today Americans Will Be Able To Visit One of the Sites Closest to Them as Described on the Website if They'Re Symptomatic if the Questionnaire Indicates It Be Able To Have a Test There and these Incredible Companies Will Will Process the Tests and and They'Ll Receive that Information but for Now the Best Advice That We Can Give for People Is To Speak to Their Doctor as the President Just Said
Today by some Estimates When You Add All the Labs Together and Today the President Made It Possible for every State in the Country and Their State Labs To Authorize Labs across Their State To Do Coronavirus Testing We'Re Estimating Somewhere between 15 and 20 Thousand Tests a Day Are Able To Be Performed but Very Soon with with the Program That Was Announced Today Americans Will Be Able To Visit One of the Sites Closest to Them as Described on the Website if They'Re Symptomatic if the Questionnaire Indicates It Be Able To Have a Test There and these Incredible Companies Will Will Process the Tests and and They'Ll Receive that Information but for Now the Best Advice That We Can Give for People Is To Speak to Their Doctor as the President Just Said
1:46:38
What They Do Is They Deliver both the Specimen Collection Piece because Remember It's a Nasal Swab It's Not a Tube of Blood so They'Ve Delivered that to Doctors Offices and Hospitals and Then They Will Arrange To Pick that Up the Important Piece in this all Is They'Ve Gone from a Machine That May Have a Lower Throughput to the Potential To Have Automated Extraction I Know You Don't Want All these Details but It's Really Key for the Laboratory People It's an Automated Extraction of the Rna That Then Runs in an Automated Way on the Machine with no One Touching It and the Result Comes out of the Other End
What They Do Is They Deliver both the Specimen Collection Piece because Remember It's a Nasal Swab It's Not a Tube of Blood so They'Ve Delivered that to Doctors Offices and Hospitals and Then They Will Arrange To Pick that Up the Important Piece in this all Is They'Ve Gone from a Machine That May Have a Lower Throughput to the Potential To Have Automated Extraction I Know You Don't Want All these Details but It's Really Key for the Laboratory People It's an Automated Extraction of the Rna That Then Runs in an Automated Way on the Machine with no One Touching It and the Result Comes out of the Other End
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