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Message: <blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 4401657" data-attributes="member: 58700">I'm also not sure about your timeline.  China reported it first death january 11th. South Korea had its first case january 20th. the US had their first case in Seattle jan 21.  So we had to have the means to test by jan 21st 11 days later. Mass production is more complicated in medical testing because you have to set rigid standards and train the factory to implement those standards. This is where the help of private industry comes in. long term the problem we have here is too many of our medicines and medical devices are made in china. Its very likely that we have lost the ability therefore to ramp up and produce something like this quickly.</blockquote>