[PA Engineer]

In principle, many hospital and academic labs around the country have the capability to carry out tests themselves. The PCR reaction uses so-called primers, short stretches of DNA, to find viral sequences. The CDC website posts the primers used in its test, and WHO publicly catalogs other primers and protocols, too. Well-equipped state or local labs can use these—or come up with their own—to produce what are known as a “laboratory-developed tests” for in-house use.

We use PCRs with saliva swabs in a study we have been working on (5 years). Our testing is far more complex than what the CDC was tasked to do with this virus. I don't understand how they could have screwed this up as badly as they have.

[janetjanet998]

WTF?

Steve Lookner
@lookner
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Family of Washington high school student who tested positive for coronavirus: “We didn’t learn of the testing of COVID-19 until Friday morning, after our now symptom-free child left for school.”

[grey_whiskers]

They’re ($*#&( &*@#%_)!! #(*&*($&[-ing Never-Trumpers, that’s why.