Federal government's support ends for Coronavirus testing: report
The federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites this Friday, according to new reporting.
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Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears
As the coronavirus pandemic peak approaches, local officials say the federal government is ending support for COVID-19 community-based testing sites.
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Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears
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A health care worker talks with a patient at a COVID-19 testing site in Philadelphia. The site will close Friday when the federal government ends support for this site and others around the country.
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Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET
Some local officials are disappointed the federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites this Friday. In a few places those sites will close as a result. This as criticism continues that not enough testing is available.
In the Philadelphia suburbs, Montgomery County has a drive-through site that has tested 250 people a day since March 21.
"It has been a very successful site. We are hoping by the time it closes Friday afternoon that we will have tested a little over 5,000 individuals," says Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, who chairs the commission in the county of more than 825,000 people.
Montgomery County has been hit hard by the pandemic. By Tuesday the county identified 1,294 positive cases and reported 32 COVID-19-related deaths.
Arkoosh says local officials staffed the site and the federal government provided much-needed testing supplies and access to a lab. "This site came with a contract with LabCorp, who accepted 250 samples from this site every day," and she says the county is not able to secure the supplies and tests on its own.
Arkoosh says the site, located on a local college campus, will shut down Friday. Similar announcements have been made in Colorado Springs, Colo., and nearby Philadelphia.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells NPR, "Many of the Community-Based Testing Sites (CBTS) are not closing, but rather transitioning to state-managed sites on or about April 10."
The agency and a spokesperson for FEMA say the CBTS program originally included 41 sites. It was intended as a stop-gap to bring testing to critical locations, especially for health care facility workers and first responders.
"The transition will ensure each state has the flexibility and autonomy to manage and operate testing sites within the needs of their specific community and to prioritize resources where they are needed the most," the HHS spokesperson said.
But that doesn't satisfy Arkoosh in Montgomery County, who says, "I am understandably disappointed that the supplies and federal contract for lab testing is ending just as we are heading into the surge here in southeastern Pennsylvania."
Arkoosh says local hospitals do have their own testing sites set up now, but it's not yet clear if they will be able to handle the extra testing now that the federal help is being withdrawn.
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A health care worker talks with a patient at a COVID-19 testing site in Philadelphia. The site will close Friday when the federal government ends support for this site and others around the country.
Matt Slocum/AP
Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET
Some local officials are disappointed the federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites this Friday. In a few places those sites will close as a result. This as criticism continues that not enough testing is available.
In the Philadelphia suburbs, Montgomery County has a drive-through site that has tested 250 people a day since March 21.
"It has been a very successful site. We are hoping by the time it closes Friday afternoon that we will have tested a little over 5,000 individuals," says Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, who chairs the commission in the county of more than 825,000 people.
Montgomery County has been hit hard by the pandemic. By Tuesday the county identified 1,294 positive cases and reported 32 COVID-19-related deaths.
Arkoosh says local officials staffed the site and the federal government provided much-needed testing supplies and access to a lab. "This site came with a contract with LabCorp, who accepted 250 samples from this site every day," and she says the county is not able to secure the supplies and tests on its own.
Arkoosh says the site, located on a local college campus, will shut down Friday. Similar announcements have been made in Colorado Springs, Colo., and nearby Philadelphia.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells NPR, "Many of the Community-Based Testing Sites (CBTS) are not closing, but rather transitioning to state-managed sites on or about April 10."
The agency and a spokesperson for FEMA say the CBTS program originally included 41 sites. It was intended as a stop-gap to bring testing to critical locations, especially for health care facility workers and first responders.
"The transition will ensure each state has the flexibility and autonomy to manage and operate testing sites within the needs of their specific community and to prioritize resources where they are needed the most," the HHS spokesperson said.
But that doesn't satisfy Arkoosh in Montgomery County, who says, "I am understandably disappointed that the supplies and federal contract for lab testing is ending just as we are heading into the surge here in southeastern Pennsylvania."
Arkoosh says local hospitals do have their own testing sites set up now, but it's not yet clear if they will be able to handle the extra testing now that the federal help is being withdrawn.
You think these cracker trump supporters care. If you look at the map. The virus hit blue states like NY and California hard. A.k.a Sanctuary City’s.
Now when it hits red states hard then your talking
Now when it hits red states hard then your talking
Why the fuck didn't they test everyone?
How is the data they are collecting accurate?
How the fuck can they say "a reduction of new cases" when they don't have an accurate count of how many are actually infected?
When the lift this "Quarantine Ban" how do they know that the untested isn't gonna restart the pandemic?
How is the data they are collecting accurate?
How the fuck can they say "a reduction of new cases" when they don't have an accurate count of how many are actually infected?
When the lift this "Quarantine Ban" how do they know that the untested isn't gonna restart the pandemic?
Oh its Definitely Going to Restart......
......And This Is Where the Carnage Is Really Gonna Pile Up Because Most Red States Are Rife With Abject Poverty of CAC's
Everyone in this country should get tested...imo..but since this country have a moron in office that will never happen.
He's too Busy Trying to "Restart the Economy" Because He Thinks It Will Save Him
45 wants private industry for profit to take over.
Owner of my company told me Trump was doing a great job and this is the most presidential he's ever seen him
bruh fuck that fuckin test..... shoving some shit up your nose till it almost hits your fuckin brain..
if you want a piss sample, saliva, sample. blood sample..
but that fuck stick in the nose..
get the entire fuck outta here....
if you want a piss sample, saliva, sample. blood sample..
but that fuck stick in the nose..
get the entire fuck outta here....
All These Idiots Are About to Have the People at the Gates
Bet the owner is still mad at Obama for playing golf that one time.
People also don’t understand economics.
There is no money to buy tests for every citizen because of corporate bailouts, stimulus etc
If you’re broke like the US you can’t keep it up
There is no money to buy tests for every citizen because of corporate bailouts, stimulus etc
If you’re broke like the US you can’t keep it up
You talking about the one time when Obama was a Senator, yet cacs still try to make it a thing.... yeah
Or he's still mad Obama wore a tan suit.... the nerve
Are you being sarcastic?
More than 50% of white voters voted for Trump, so there is a good chance tht most of the white people you know or work with voted Trump.
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Damn. That's crazy.
Insane and we hearing more and more stories like this.
fuck you mean lyin ho...
I got my shit from ucla..
university corner of lenox ave..
Hard Knock Degree...
u betta ask a real bgol knigga