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The limiting factor right now is the availability of approved labs to perform the test

A big point of the Presidents address today was around relaxing regulations to help the response. So hopefully this will get sorted out.

Let's not forget that retailers are making their parking lots available, Google has deployed 1,700 engineers to build a flowchart website, and the US is buying up oil reserves.

I think this epidemic is pretty much solved, don't you?

I tried googling some keywords to see if Google would show me that site straight away, but didn't get anything in my 30 seconds of attempts.

Is it because I'm in Europe?

Got to love the oil reserves idea to help Saudi Arabia in its price war against Russia. Ah fuck, that's why he declared national emergency: so he can get 40 billion dollars to bail out the Saudis.

That lady was so proud of her 6 node flow chart too. She was beaming when she took it out...

Nothing exists yet [1]. Verily (an Alphabet subsidiary but essentially "Google" for all intents and purposes) is working on a triage website with a limited focus on the Bay Area.

Ultimately it's going to be a slightly more complex variant of "Do you have a fever?" with a map showing nearby testing locations when someone clicks yes.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-coronavirus-screening...

This is surprisingly useful and difficult to implement well. It’s more than just keeping accurate information up to date, but also ensuring it works for the blind and as many languages as possible etc. Further, the Bay Area is just the initial pilot, their goal is likely nationwide if not international.

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