https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Chinese Firm to Replace Exported Coronavirus Test Kits Deemed Defective by Spain
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/27/world/asia/27reuters-health-coronavirus-shenzhen-bioeasy-spain.html
BEIJING/MADRID —
China's Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology Co Ltd said on Friday it will
replace some coronavirus test kits it exported to Spain after the
Spanish government deemed them too inaccurate to be used to diagnose
patients.
Spain's Ministry of Health,
Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare said in a statement that test kits
supplied by Shenzhen Bioeasy were defective and had failed to correctly
diagnose people when tested at hospitals.
Shenzhen
Bioeasy said in a statement that the incorrect results may be a result
of a failure to collect samples or use the kits correctly. The firm said
it had not adequately communicated with clients how to use the kits.
The
Spanish ministry said it will withdraw the kits that returned incorrect
results, and would replace them with a different testing kit provided
by Shenzhen Bioeasy.
Coronavirus: Countries reject Chinese-made equipment
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395
Spain’s government encountered similar problems with testing kits ordered from a Chinese company.
It
announced it had bought hundreds of thousands of tests to combat the
virus, but revealed in the following days that nearly 60,000 could not
accurately determine if a patient had the virus.
The Chinese
embassy in Spain tweeted that the company behind the kits, Shenzhen
Bioeasy Biotechnology, did not have an official license from Chinese
medical authorities to sell its products.
It clarified that
separate material donated by the Chinese government and technology and
retail group Alibaba did not include products from Shenzhen Bioeasy.
Turkey
also announced that it had found some testing kits ordered from Chinese
companies were not sufficiently accurate, although it said that some
350,000 of the tests worked well.
Allegations of defective
equipment come after critics warned China could be using the coronavirus
outbreak to further its influence.
New White House press secretary downplayed pandemic threat and said Democrats were rooting for coronavirus
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/white-house-press-secretary-coronavirus/index.html
New White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus in comments made in February and March, a CNN KFile review has found.
In radio and television appearances, McEnany, in her role as spokeswoman for President Donald Trump's
2020 campaign, said the administration had the rapidly spreading
coronavirus "under control" and said that because of travel restrictions
enacted by the President, "we will not see diseases like the
coronavirus come here."
She
also said Democrats were "actively rooting against what's in the best
interest of America," including rooting for coronavirus to take hold.
She said coronavirus, like the Russia and Ukraine scandals, was being
used to take down Trump.
Chaos rocks Trump White House on virus' most tragic day
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html
The chaos and confusion rocking President Donald Trump's administration on the most tragic day yet of the coronavirus pandemic was exceptional even by his own standards.
Trump
set out Tuesday to cement his image of a wartime leader facing down an
"invisible enemy" at a dark moment as the country waits for the virus to
peak and with the economy languishing in suspended animation.
"What we have is a plague, and we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel," the President said, on a day when a record number of Americans succumbed to the wicked respiratory disease.
But
instead of putting minds at rest, Trump's wild performance instead put
on a display many of the personal and political habits that have defined
his tumultuous presidency. It was a troubling spectacle coming at such a
wrenching chapter of national life, the kind of moment when Presidents
are called to provide consistent, level leadership.
Trump's top economic adviser Larry
Kudlow admitted that a small business rescue program was off to "a bad
start" after recipients struggled to register funds, only for the
President to celebrate the program's roaring success -- and to credit
his daughter Ivanka with personally creating 15 million jobs.
US Navy boss resigns amid uproar over firing of ship captain
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-navy-boss-resigns-amid-uproar-over-firing-of-ship-captain/
Modly came to his own conclusion and offered
his resignation. Modly’s options were few. Officials said it would have
been difficult for him to rebuild his relationship with sailors in the
fleet, and equally hard to restore his reputation among senior military
leaders and retired naval officers who believed his sharp remarks on the
Roosevelt crossed a line.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Trump removes watchdog tapped for $2 trillion virus rescue oversight
https://q13fox.com/2020/04/07/trump-removes-watchdog-tapped-for-2t-virus-rescue-oversight/
The move threatens
to upend the rigorous oversight that Democrats in Congress demanded for
the huge sums of money being pumped into the American economy because
of the virus.
It’s also part of a
broader conflict between Trump, a president averse to outside
criticism, and the watchdog community tasked with identifying
mismanagement and problems inside government agencies.
Trump has bristled
at the oversight of the coronavirus law, suggesting in a statement last
month that some of the mandates from Congress were unconstitutional.
“I’ll be the oversight,” Trump declared as lawmakers were finalizing the rescue plan.
He has also drawn criticism for naming a White House lawyer to a new Treasury Department position overseeing $500 billion in coronavirus aid to industry.
Republican Sen.
Charles Grassley, a longtime whistleblower advocate, tweeted at Trump
not to view inspectors general as critics, though he didn’t mention Fine
by name. He said the officials hold the federal bureaucracy
accountable.
Fact check: Did the coronavirus originate in a Chinese laboratory?
A statement in the Lancet,
a medical journal, written by public health officials who have been
following the progression of the virus also asserted that animals are
the likely source: “Scientists from multiple countries have published
and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and they overwhelmingly conclude
that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.”
The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here's how we know
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html
The persistent myth can be put to bed.
Acting secretary of the Navy has submitted his resignation after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html
Washington (CNN)Acting
Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has submitted his resignation a day after
leaked audio revealed he called the ousted commander of the USS Theodore
Roosevelt "stupid" in an address to the ship's crew, according to a US
official and a former senior military official.
On Monday, Modly told the crew
of the Roosevelt that their former commander, Capt. Brett Crozier, was
either "too naive or too stupid" to be in command or that he
intentionally leaked a memo to the media, in which Crozier warned about
coronavirus spreading aboard the aircraft carrier and urged action to
save his sailors, according to remarks obtained by CNN.
Late Monday night, Modly apologized in a statement for calling Crozier "stupid" in his earlier remarks.
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