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To: bitt; bagster; defconw; generally; ransomnote; TEXOKIE; gnarledmaw; All

HERE’S AN ARTICLE REGARDING CURRENT SOLUTION TO TESTING:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/27/809936132/cdc-fixes-issue-delaying-coronavirus-testing-in-u-s
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But the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration informed state officials late Wednesday that the agencies have resolved the problem with the test kits.

“The FDA has authorized the use of those tests by using just the first and second step to provide a definitive diagnostic,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during a congressional hearing Thursday.

Forty labs — local and state public health labs as well as select department of defense labs — across the U.S. are already authorized to start using the modified test, and all 93 labs should be able to start testing by next week, Azar said.
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1,117 posted on 02/27/2020 10:06:52 PM PST by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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What a bunch of worthless bureaucratic scum. This just smells of *one* deep-state vermin — funny how they *ALWAYS* pop up at just the critical junction, or pivot point — deliberately screwing stuff up “accidentally on purpose” to destroy things so they can blame Trump.

If the head of public health at Hopkins, a top London epidemiologist, and a guy who taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health, all warned of a worldwide epidemic and called for crash research along multiple fronts (where money is no object) for a vaccine, back in JANUARY when even China had less than 1000 cases...word was out among those in the know how bad this was; they should’ve tested and gotten the bugs out of the test back _then_.


1,130 posted on 02/28/2020 12:30:00 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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