Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
@mcnado Yeah, they are. Do you think there are academic labs that might be able to ramp up and fulfill some of those functions?

@Fishercat

I expect that to be the objective: outsource CDC work to commercial labs from people who pay Trump a kickback.

@mcnado

@paulschoe @Fishercat @mcnado

Or just being able to brag that the official rate has dropped to zero...