Contrary to Trump’s claim today, Google is NOT building a nationwide coronavirus screening website

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Is this directed at Trump or the OP?

(Personally, I'd direct it at the OP. The claim is contradicted by the quotation chosen to illustrate the claim.)

I would guess to Trump.

He lied.

Again.

Trump is trying to pressure companies to cooperate with his administration- by announcing that they are ... but they just want him to go away no matter the consequences ...

Lying about that is an excellent way to encourage corporate participation.

Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government’s coronavirus testing apparatus, which has lagged badly behind other developed nations, would soon get an assist from Google. The search and advertising giant will create a website, Trump said, that would help Americans figure out if they need a test for the virus, and if so where they can find one.

The only problem: There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one.

Company leadership was surprised that Trump announced anything about the initiative at the press conference. What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement. “Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.”

Even that, though, was not the original plan. The Verge reported Friday afternoon, Verily had intended the site for health care workers only. After Trump unexpectedly publicized the effort, Verily decided it will let anyone visit it, but can still only provide people with testing site information in the San Francisco area.

The disconnect is especially odd given how extensively Trump and other White House officials touted the website during Friday's press conference. Google had 1,700 engineers working on it, Trump said. By Sunday, offered Vice President Mike Pence, they would be able to announce timing for the site’s availability. Recently appointed White House coronavirus coordinator Debbie Birx walked through how the site would work. “Clients and patients and people who have interest can fill out a screening questionnaire,” she said. If the answers indicate that they have symptoms for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the site will direct them to the nearest drive-through testing site. Once tested, they’ll get results within 24 to 36 hours. It sounded a bit like Google Maps: Pandemic Edition.

Most important, today’s White House presentation created confusion at a time when the US can least afford it. People will be looking for a site that tells them where to get tested; unless they live in a handful of zip codes, it will be useless to them for the foreseeable future. That Trump said untrue things about a focal point of his plan also does not engender confidence in the rest of the measures. The US needs reliable, wide-scale testing, now. Without that, the site issue is moot.

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I'm part of the don't test don't tell crowd


they won't quarantine me!

i cannot get over Trump's google website lie and how all those public health officials stood up there and nodded along and endorsed it.

Google didn't do something they said they were going to do?

Color me shocked.

It was probably quite awkward.

No, you got it backwards.

Trump said Google was doing that they were not even planning to do.

So no Google website by sunday? That means something else will happen on sunday.

Maybe google said they would so they could make him a fool just like this....

Glad google only wants to help bay area triage only.

Fu google

You actually think a business strategist made this shit up???
My bet he was promised the moon by the goon execs and then after he released the info, they backtracked.
They made a serious error.
The pissed off the one person who can start the ball rolling to separate their liberal asses into small pieces just like ma Bell.
The collective of the MSM is going all in on a Hail Mary to discredit this citizen elected President before November... full retard move.
They will pay dearly after his re-election.
Vital strategic error in their part.
Play stupid games....
Win stupid prizes.

“Google is going to develop a website — it’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past — to determine if a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location,”

“We have many, many locations behind us, by the way. We cover this country and large parts of the world, by the way. We’re not gonna be talking about the world right now, but we cover very, very strongly our country. Stores in virtually every location."

How many coronavirus lies does that add up to for the week?

Pelosi's communist pets.
Fuck them all.

You geniuses just keep falling for it

You’re arguing over a tree when you can’t see that the entire forest is on fire

You sheep don’t even realize that Trump’s GRAND TESTING PLAN including this website is designed to ration care because they know beds won’t be available very soon

Our neighbor and close family friend was misdiagnosed 4 times from allergies to pneumonia which resulted in hospitalization and an induced coma where his autopsy concluded he died from RSV yet that healthy 60 year old male was never tested for COVID-19 because he didn’t have direct ties to China just like the thousands of PNEUMONIA and RSV patients who died last week alone who were also never tested

That’s why this Administration is making a point to test now because they know they got caught with their pants down

This Administration has been insulting our intelligence for over a month playing politics with people’s lives using word games to justify their nefariously deceptive language when we all could read for ourselves what was taking place in China and Europe

I will admit this Administration is finally pretending to take this seriously but what happens when all this testing confirms what we already know?

I don’t see the NATIONAL GUARD and ARMY RESERVE deploying MASH UNITS and FSH (FORWARD SUPPORT HOSPITALS) let alone supplying them with the necessary equipment to combat this

Instead we are being tested so we can be told to stay home and self-quarantine to burn this virus out no different than how China turned MILLIONS of patients away in the same way

Just like China, there are only so many beds available which is why China built temporary hospitals that some have said were HOSPICE CENTERS to transplant living functioning lungs from healthy uninfected people

That’s how China managed the numbers and this Administration is also managing the numbers

Trump’s testing plan is going to be used to RATION care

Otherwise he would’ve grounded all flights

Instead he is managing the numbers

Again

“Google is going to develop a website — it’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past — to determine if a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location,”

“We have many, many locations behind us, by the way. We cover this country and large parts of the world, by the way. We’re not gonna be talking about the world right now, but we cover very, very strongly our country. Stores in virtually every location."

So how many coronavirus lies so far this week?

Because the media and Google never lie and are not in bed with the deep state.

IF anyone lied it was Google to the white house, then acted like they were shocked by the announcement to make the President look bad.

Google IS DEEP STATE, and Hilary lost the election and Trump will win again in 2020!!!!

Q tell you that?

Let me guess, Q sent you?

Winning!

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Interesting that Trump would announce a partnership with "DEEP STATE" Google, even thought that was false.

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Good. Fuck Google.

Says Google, who trusts that shit company anyway?

Trump said it and they exposed themselves as to everyone as the Traitors they are.

Screw GOOGLE and their screening.

Expose them for what they are so when they get taken down, nobody with a working brain will care.

Google is part and parcel of the deep state, they care nothing about the people of this Nation, they wanted Trump to lose in the first place, you think they would not lie to make him look bad?

Of course you do not know that, you are stupid.

I was disgusted by all the meta data they would obtain for free in the name of helping our country.

Pelosis pet and Chinas bitch=Google

Can Trump look ANY fucking dumber???? GOD!!!!!!!!!

Well he's a lying, narcissistic twatwaffle hellbent on protecting his "reputation" before anyone's life, liberty or pursuit of freedom, so...

What I got from this. Google said they would do something. Now claim they did no such thing. You cannot trust google. They are in bed with Hillary Clinton. I doubt the white house would have said google will be doing this. Without speaking to google.

Anyway, such a website could be done within a matter of a week. It's basically answer questions. If it comes out to certain % of known causes of the virus. Then you tell them to seek a test. Based on their address, then you direct them to the nearest clinic and can do the appointment online. That last portion would take an API key to coordinate with all health professionals calendar system nation wide. They basically all use the same system. They would signup for their doctors office, who can do the tests. have an API key, so their area is keyed in.

Such a website would take about a week to create, including the servers to manage the load balancing and such. Govts have the equipment already for the traffic.

I personally would not seek help from such a website. It's just a tool to calm the public. So far everything has been about just calming people. Nothing has been done.