In WA state, a healthcare testing business received government funding to test sample people with the ordinary flu. They collected about 11,000 samples.
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With the new virus, on their own, they went back and tested those samples for COVID-19. They found nealy a hundred actually had COVID-19.
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They told the CDC.
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They were informed that those test results were private and that they could not legally tell the patients or even health authorities that they had the virus.
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Got a link to the source of that “information”?
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