(South Dakota had very few cases of China Flu. All of a sudden 200+ workers at a company in the middle of the country that is wholly-owned by China get sick. This feels suspicious to me.)

South Dakota pork plant closes after over 200 workers contract Covid-19

About 240 employees at the plant contracted the virus, making up over half of the state’s positive cases

A major pork manufacturing plant in South Dakota has indefinitely shut down after more than 200 of its employees contracted Covid-19.

According to Smithfield, who runs the plant, the facility’s output represents up to 5% of US pork production, supplying 130m servings of food a week and employing 3,700 people. Over 550 independent farmers supplied the plant.

The company that runs the plant, Smithfield Foods, announced the closure of its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Sunday, a day after the state’s governor, Kristi Noem, asked the company to suspend the plant’s operation for at least 14 days.

The number of employees who worked at the plant and contracted the virus makes up over half of the state’s positive cases. About 240 employees from the plant have contracted the virus.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/south-dakota-pork-plant-closes-after-200-workers-contract-covid-19

Will Obama's endorsement today talk about Biden's Great work with China and the Ukraine under his administration?

Cuomo wants all this testing before he opens NY. Testing has no effect in the virus. Cuomo is obstructing the reopening of the economy. All leading to the Dem demand for mail in voting. Delay works in his favor.

Meanwhile, Schumer is delaying making a deal on funding for Americans to survive the shutdown.

Testing is not really important. It changes nothing in reality. Testing provides handy numbers for Cuomo to manipulate the narrative and delay the reopening of the economy.

(Tests are not going to save us! Testing is nice, but inaccurate, expensive and time consuming. And, what do you get from a “test”? Test are being used by the Dems to delay re-opening the economy. The Dems also want to use testing to delay and push through “vote harvesting and mail-in voting” in the current negotiations with Congress that is supposed to give the American people enough money to survive until the country re-opens.)

New Test Hopes Dashed as U.K. Finds Antibody Kits Don’t Deliver

The U.K. became the latest country to stock up on faulty Covid-19 tests after Oxford University researchers found that many of the kits can’t accurately show whether someone was exposed to the new coronavirus.

Multiple tests provided for evaluation “have not performed well,” said John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford and adviser to the government on life sciences. The home-testing kits are designed to look in people’s blood for antibodies produced by the immune system to fight the virus.

Many countries are hoping these kinds of tests can help grasp the true scope of the pandemic and reveal who has built up immunity to Covid-19 and can return to a more normal life – but they must be accurate. Germany estimates such tools may be three months away, Bell wrote. It could be at least a month before the U.K. can find a reliable version, he said.

“Sadly, the tests we have looked at to date have not performed well,” Bell said in a blog post. “This is not a good result for test suppliers or for us.”

British officials said on March 25 that they’d ordered more than 4 million of these tests, which can be as simple as finger-prick devices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-07/new-test-hopes-dashed-as-u-k-finds-antibody-kits-don-t-deliver