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   Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 08:09:02 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦

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   • Glenn Fleishman
   • John Gordon

   @glennf @jgordon
   Canadian here...First time I have seen these.
   <sighing> Politicians and lobbying!

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     Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 08:09:02 JST Glenn Fleishman

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     • John Gordon

     @Snowshadow @jgordon They exist—for all I know, they're $250 each or something, but what quantity are they produced at? What's the cost of hospitalization to society? etc. I would love to have a combo test, even for $10 or $20 (free to people with lower incomes) to reduce transmission and avoid doctor visits, etc.

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     • John Gordon

     @jgordon Yes: it’s not that they *cost* pennies, but they could be made under massive contract and supplied for relatively little with subsidies (or free) as part of a functioning health system. Ones like this with COVID-19, Flu, and one other (RSV?) I've seen shown as widely available in Europe.