Bill Gates, the former CEO and founder of Microsoft, believes Coronavirus tests are a ‘complete waste.’
According to the Billionaire, the amount of time it takes for test
results to come back means they don’t achieve the purpose for which they
were carried out, which is a timely isolation of the patient before
spread of the disease begins.
According to Bill Gates, whose foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates
foundation has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to treatment and
vaccine research for Covid-19, people need to get results back sooner so
that they’re able to “change their behavior so they’re not infecting
other people.”
“The simplest thing, which has to do with such insanity, is you should
not reimburse somebody for getting a test that it takes more than 48
hours to get the result back,” Gates said in an interview with CNBC.
“That test is a complete waste. And to all these numbers about how much
we test, the majority is just complete waste,” he added, calling it
“insane” to have to pay for test results that could take more than three
days and up to a full week.
Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health at the US
Department of Health and Human Services, agrees with Bill Gates that
testing needs to be improved.
Giroir speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” said;
“I started out by saying that we are never going to be happy with
testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours, and I would be
happy with point-of-care testing everywhere. We are not there yet. We
are doing everything we can to do that,”
