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Having a declaration
of an emergency allows you to, like,
cut through a lot of red tape where, like, you don't have to approve things
the traditional pathway, which takes many, many years. So it's like going through the
precheck line at the airport. FDA issued the EUA to CDC
really on February 4th, and test kits were available
on the 5th. The test kits
will start shipping to the over 100
U.S. public health labs. Each test kit can perform
up to 800 patient samples. It works in about
four to five hours' time. And that's pretty heroic,
in two weeks, to develop test kits
for the country. So, so far,
speaking of the playbook, everything was going right
of an emergency allows you to, like,
cut through a lot of red tape where, like, you don't have to approve things
the traditional pathway, which takes many, many years. So it's like going through the
precheck line at the airport. FDA issued the EUA to CDC
really on February 4th, and test kits were available
on the 5th. The test kits
will start shipping to the over 100
U.S. public health labs. Each test kit can perform
up to 800 patient samples. It works in about
four to five hours' time. And that's pretty heroic,
in two weeks, to develop test kits
for the country. So, so far,
speaking of the playbook, everything was going right
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Having a declaration
of an emergency
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allows you to, like,
cut through a lot of red tape
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where, like, you don't have to
00:00:07.272 --> 00:00:09.175
approve things
the traditional pathway,
00:00:09.208 --> 00:00:11.243
which takes many, many years.
00:00:11.277 --> 00:00:14.648
So it's like going through the
precheck line at the airport.
00:00:14.681 --> 00:00:19.386
FDA issued the EUA to CDC
really on February 4th,
00:00:19.419 --> 00:00:22.689
and test kits were available
on the 5th.
00:00:22.721 --> 00:00:24.658
The test kits
will start shipping
00:00:24.069 --> 00:00:27.727
to the over 100
U.S. public health labs.
00:00:27.761 --> 00:00:30.964
Each test kit can perform
up to 800 patient samples.
00:00:30.996 --> 00:00:33.833
It works in about
four to five hours' time.
00:00:33.866 --> 00:00:35.267
And that's pretty heroic,
in two weeks,
00:00:35.301 --> 00:00:38.017
to develop test kits
for the country.
00:00:38.203 --> 00:00:40.094
So, so far,
speaking of the playbook,
00:00:40.973 --> 00:00:44.745
everything was going right.
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Movie Summary
An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
