President Donald Trump traveled to Maine Friday to tour a facility that makes medical swabs used for coronavirus testing, but the swabs manufactured in the background during his visit will ultimately be thrown in the trash, the company said.
Puritan Medical Products said it will have to discard the swabs, a company spokeswoman told USA TODAY in response to questions about the visit.
It is not clear why the swabs will be scrapped, or how many.
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Workers in white lab coats, hair nets and plastic booties worked at machines making swabs while the president walked through the room. Trump, who did not wear a mask for the visit, stopped at one point to talk with some of the workers.
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"The running of the factory machines is very limited today and will only occur when the president is touring the facility floor," Virginia Templet, the company's marketing manager told USA TODAY in response to questions about the event. "Swabs produced during that time will be discarded."
USA Today
Greata reporting, USA Today. Maybe you could have asked specifically why they were tossing today's production. (I shouldn't single out USA Today. Every outlet says the same thing: unclear why. And it looks like they just took USA's report rather than check it out for themselves. Reporting isn't what it used to be.)
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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