This is a ‘Hind Sight’ wtf moment. The NYT posted this item 8/20 and its should tell how Huge Pharma will bow to money over the health of out nation and even the world. I haven’t seen this on our site so forgive me if it is old news.
“”” For weeks in June and July, workers at a Maine factory making one of America’s most popular rapid tests for Covid-19 were given a task that shocked them: take apart millions of the products they had worked so hard to create and stuff them into garbage bags.
Soon afterward, Andy Wilkinson, a site manager for Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer, stood before rows of employees to announce layoffs. The company canceled contracts with suppliers and shuttered the only other plant making the test, in Illinois, dismissing a work force of 2,000. “The numbers are going down,” he told the workers of the demand for testing, saying it wasn’t their fault. — - — (The bottom line) “”” “This is all about money.”
Now with the COVID Delta Variant explosion they find themselves behind the 8 ball!
“”” Demand for the 15-minute antigen test, BinaxNOW, is soaring again as people return to schools and offices. Yet Abbott has reportedly told thousands of newly interested companies that it cannot equip their testing programs in the near future. Abbott is scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers.”””
I wonder if the employees who may feel ‘jilted’ hurry back?