Obama admin shut down H1N1 testing, complicating Biden's attacks on Trump's coronavirus screeninghttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-obama-admin-halted-state-h1n1-testing-complicating-bidens-attacks-on-white-houseJoe Biden is stepping up his attacks on the Trump administration's coronavirus testing management, saying Wednesday that "the crisis in Arizona is the direct result of Donald Trump's failure to lead and his desire to 'slow the testing down,' and Americans are suffering the consequences."
Biden specifically called for the White House to "immediately resume operating federally-managed community-based testing around the country and establish multiple sites in Arizona." And, in recent weeks, Biden has demanded that Trump "speed up the testing" nationwide, saying Trump has been "putting politics ahead of the safety and economic well-being of the American people."
However, during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, the Obama administration suddenly told states to shut down their testing, without providing much in the way of explanation. ...
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"In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases," CBS News reported in 2009. "The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic?"
From the data on this webpage,
https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily , US daily testing has
increased from about 461K per day in the first week of June to about 639K per day in the first week of July. I think that could be called "speeding up" the testing. At this point I think the daily numbers are test-subject-limited rather than capacity limited.
So even Joe's premise for this attack is false. And then there's the hypocrisy in the actions in which he took part.
