[LilFarmer]

This is huge...

Scoop: Lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated

Axios
Jonathan Swan, Caitlin Owens
A lab runs coronavirus tests
A researcher works in a laboratory developing testing for the coronavirus. Photo: Kena Betancur/Getty Images
A top federal scientist sounded the alarm about what he feared was contamination in an Atlanta lab where the government made test kits for the coronavirus, according to sources familiar with the situation in Atlanta.

The Trump administration has ordered an independent investigation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab, and manufacturing of the virus test kits has been moved, the sources said.
https://www.axios.com/cdc-lab-coronavirus-contaminated-6dc9726d-dea3-423f-b5ad-eb7b1e44c2e2.html

[janetjanet998]

BREAKING: Two health care workers, one from Solano County and another one from Alameda County, are “presumptive positive” for coronavirus.

[LilFarmer]

The concern was raised in a conference call with concerns from several agencies...

[mrsmith]

Good grief!

(But I wonder if it’s a distraction from the real problem... so distrustful of the media these days.)

[rfp1234]

It's a good thing they caught this error time and quickly interrupted the process, rather than sending out additional thousands of bad kits.

And who knows how many similar mistakes may have occurred in China. That would explain (aside from the normal Communist regime practices) why so few China cases have been reported outside of Hubei province.

[Jane Long]

Were these the test kits that were malfunctioning? Or, the new kits being sent out since?