Testing, where is General Groves?

In WW II General Groves ran the atomic bomb project. No Press interviews just get the job done. If it worked it would save 1 million American troops, my father included. He did the job. Thanks General.

Now a similar job is to be done on COVID testing. But no General Groves. Just dumb and dumber or worse the Three Stooges.

Take the NEJM article:

Expanding the capacity, throughput, speed of returning results, analytic performance, and regional placement of diagnostic technologies is urgently needed and, if successful, will contribute importantly to the current national efforts to curb the Covid-19 pandemic and help to reduce inequities for underserved populations. As we embark on this initiative, the challenges ahead are considerable, and the timetable is truly daunting. Aiming to achieve this rapid evaluation, validation, and scale-up has rarely, if ever, been attempted at this pace. However, the NIH is in a position to serve as a “venture investment” organization and is currently striving to operate in that entrepreneurial spirit. The success of the RADx program will depend on truly innovative ideas coming forward from the minds and laboratories of technology developers, a robust and rapidly responsive expert evaluation system, extensive collaborations in validation and scale-up with experts from all sectors, and strong community partnerships to support testing availability and uptake. All these partners are profoundly energized by a sense of urgency, opportunity, and responsibility to provide testing at scale in the face of this global pandemic.

Well not really. The above is Government double speak. They are trying to praise themselves as the country collapses. Namely we have a "plan" for a "plan". Thanks, but we have a lot of dead bodies.

Now the NY Times states:

Federal, state and local officials on Sunday appeared to agree on one thing: Test results are taking too long. But they gave conflicting assessments of the U.S. response to recent spikes in coronavirus cases, which have severely strained testing nationwide and led to  renewed shortages and weeklong backlogs at major labs. Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant health secretary overseeing the national coronavirus testing response, said the country was performing enough testing to “achieve the goals we need to achieve.” ... Mr. Giroir acknowledged that turnaround times were too long. But he asserted that while testing was still not widely available to anyone who wanted it — despite past claims from Mr. Trump that it would be — it was available to those who needed it. Testing is considered crucial to understanding and stopping the spread of the coronavirus. When turnaround times extend beyond several days, it can render the information useless since those tested may have spread the virus to other people by the time their results are back. Mark Meadows, President Trump’s chief of staff, skirted questions about the administration’s early missteps by suggesting that medical advancements, not masks, would be the only way to end the pandemic. “Hopefully it is American ingenuity that will allow for therapies and vaccines to ultimately conquer this,” he said ...

Well Admiral you are no General Groves. In fact, in my opinion, you should seek employment elsewhere. Now for the politicians, look what FDR did, any comparisons folks. One cannot Tweet your way out of this.

The US has great examples of getting things done. This is not one of them. Frankly, have they no shame!