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patphil

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5. You'd think that while they were shoveling billions to Pharma companies to make a vaccine,

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2020, 03:40 PM

Jul 2020

they would have done the same for companies to make PPE's, create tests, and evaluate tests.

But we still have insufficient tests to meet the need, and the tests can take a week or more to evaluate.
And, we're still hearing of shortages of PPE's in areas where the pandemic is raging.

The Trump's management of the pandemic is pure shit.

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