DeacMan
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Earlier you brought Minnesotans being upset with NY getting more tests. First, MN has 1% of the cases of NY. They also have less than 1% of the deaths and fewer than 1/3 of population of NY.
Why should MN expect to get a disproportionate number of tests and other materials at this point?
Me reporting on what Dr's in a state have said is different than me passing judgement on what was said.
It isn't shocking that medical professionals in any location are frustrated with a lack of materials. Germany and France professionals are complaining the US is buying supplies out from under them. Those are the same nations that refused to send ventilators to Italy a few weeks ago. Oddly one of the things constraining testing worldwide is that the majority of the swabs used to do the tests are made in Lombardy Italy. It's just a fact, one cited repeatedly by governors across the nation - they've had to compete with each other for needed supplies. NY is running thousands and thousands of tests daily. The governor touted they could run over 16,000 a day. Meanwhile Indiana has been able to run a grand total of 16,000 - a state with about 3,500 confirmed cases. Of course Dr's are frustrated.
People then clap on for FEMA to co-ordinate everything, they start doing it and that still makes people upset - like the Gov. of MA who sent a plane to China to pick up facemasks or the Gov. of CT who is mad FEMA is sending ventilators to other parts of the country that he feels are needed in his state first.