In February 2020 when the fight against COVID was ramping up and the CDC was taking measures to address the pandemic, the agency was of course tasked to develop test kits under the Emergency Use Authorization Act.
The kits were designed and mass produced for distribution to medical labs across the country.
In record time, the CDC was able to develop a plausible kit to deploy.
But there was only one problem.
Specific flaws within test kits caused a massive flood of FALSE POSITIVES.
Those numbers were then used by the Globalist Media to catapult their narrative of PANIC and FEAR over the “spread” of COVID-19.
Convenient?
Two components of the test panel, the “N1” and “N3” probes, function within the kit to detect and flag the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence. Those probes can be amplified if flawed, triggering a false positive result.
A new agency review in the medical journal PLOS ONE, says the test kits’ N1 component was contaminated, while the N3 component’s flaw was related to an error in the design phase.
One must be curious about the timing of the N1 component and the initial design concept of the N3 component.
Why was the N3 flaw not caught in that initial design phase?
Just like vaccines, test kits take usually take YEARS to develop a plausible design–let alone mass production, rollout, and clinical usage.
Here is a very interesting snippet I found in the medical journal report. It pertains to the timing of when the “contamination” most likely occurred.
Because the EUA kits were contaminated, but not the pre-validation material (pre-EUA), the contamination must have occurred during the post production quality control process or packaging of the EUA kits distributed to public health labs.
Very interesting this occurred AFTER they were produced and BEFORE they were sent out to labs.
I get we are in a pandemic, but February 2020 to present day seems like a long time to finally confirm all of this. To be honest, I bet most people though the kits were flawed on day one. I know I sure did.
COVID is a threat to those older in age and those with comorbidities. Not so much to everyone else, granted you take care of yourself and keep your hands clean.
But where did all of that panic and fear get us?
It kicked us right in the teeth, and now we’re fighting to regain even some of the most basic of individual liberties.
So will CNN or MSNBC offer an apology for their poor journalism or cover this story now?
No.
JustTheNews reported on the CDC’s comments on the study. Here’s what they said:
The explanation Wednesday marked the agency’s first public statement on the high-profile misstep that occurred during the onset of the pandemic.
In February 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an inaugural batch of COVID testing kits to public labs across the country. But within days, most of the kits failed to meet standard thresholds to verify their efficacy, with many of them returning false-positive results.
“Those three weeks between when the initial test was rolled out and then failed and before we really had a new test available were a really, really long time,” Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious disease programs at the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
So how exactly did they get contaminated?
I guess we may never know. We’re used to that.
While the new findings of contamination and a design flaw are plausible, the analysis doesn’t reveal exactly when the contamination was introduced — and we may never find out.
Oorang wrote:
“Agency Review Confirms COVID-19 Test Kits ‘Contaminated’ After Production; Featured Initial Design Flaw
December 16, 2021
In February 2020 when the fight against COVID was ramping up and the CDC was taking measures to address the pandemic, the agency was of course tasked to develop test kits under the Emergency Use Authorization Act.
The kits were designed and mass produced for distribution to medical labs across the country.
In record time, the CDC was able to develop a plausible kit to deploy.
But there was only one problem.
Specific flaws within test kits caused a massive flood of FALSE POSITIVES.
Those numbers were then used by the Globalist Media to catapult their narrative of PANIC and FEAR over the “spread” of COVID-19.
Convenient?
Two components of the test panel, the “N1” and “N3” probes, function within the kit to detect and flag the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence. Those probes can be amplified if flawed, triggering a false positive result.
A new agency review in the medical journal PLOS ONE, says the test kits’ N1 component was contaminated, while the N3 component’s flaw was related to an error in the design phase.
One must be curious about the timing of the N1 component and the initial design concept of the N3 component.
Why was the N3 flaw not caught in that initial design phase?
Just like vaccines, test kits take usually take YEARS to develop a plausible design–let alone mass production, rollout, and clinical usage.
Here is a very interesting snippet I found in the medical journal report. It pertains to the timing of when the “contamination” most likely occurred.
Because the EUA kits were contaminated, but not the pre-validation material (pre-EUA), the contamination must have occurred during the post production quality control process or packaging of the EUA kits distributed to public health labs.
Very interesting this occurred AFTER they were produced and BEFORE they were sent out to labs.
I get we are in a pandemic, but February 2020 to present day seems like a long time to finally confirm all of this. To be honest, I bet most people though the kits were flawed on day one. I know I sure did.
COVID is a threat to those older in age and those with comorbidities. Not so much to everyone else, granted you take care of yourself and keep your hands clean.
But where did all of that panic and fear get us?
It kicked us right in the teeth, and now we’re fighting to regain even some of the most basic of individual liberties.
So will CNN or MSNBC offer an apology for their poor journalism or cover this story now?
No.
JustTheNews reported on the CDC’s comments on the study. Here’s what they said:
The explanation Wednesday marked the agency’s first public statement on the high-profile misstep that occurred during the onset of the pandemic.
In February 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an inaugural batch of COVID testing kits to public labs across the country. But within days, most of the kits failed to meet standard thresholds to verify their efficacy, with many of them returning false-positive results.
“Those three weeks between when the initial test was rolled out and then failed and before we really had a new test available were a really, really long time,” Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious disease programs at the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
So how exactly did they get contaminated?
I guess we may never know. We’re used to that.
While the new findings of contamination and a design flaw are plausible, the analysis doesn’t reveal exactly when the contamination was introduced — and we may never find out.
Ping to false positives caused by contaminated test kits; note this from the article:
“Because the EUA kits were contaminated, but not the pre-validation material (pre-EUA), the contamination must have occurred during the post production quality control process or packaging of the EUA kits distributed to public health labs.
Very interesting this occurred AFTER they were produced and BEFORE they were sent out to labs.”
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But 'someone' made them tell us. Here's an article from April 18, 2020 (link to NYT and FRee Republic thread) with an excerpt:
Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.
C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say
NY Times ^ | April 18, 2020 | By Sheila Kaplan
Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Early on, the F.D.A., which oversees laboratory tests, sent Dr. Timothy Stenzel, chief of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the C.D.C. labs to assess the problem, several officials said. He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said.
Problems ranged from researchers entering and exiting the coronavirus laboratories without changing their coats, to test ingredients being assembled in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples, officials said. Those practices made the tests sent to public health labs unusable because they were contaminated with the coronavirus, and produced some inconclusive results.
In a statement on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., Stephanie Caccomo, said, “C.D.C. did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.”
The F.D.A. confirmed its conclusions late this week after several media outlets requested public disclosure of its inquiry, which assuredly is part of a larger federal investigation into the C.D.C. lab irregularities by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Forced to suspend the launch of a nationwide detection program for the coronavirus for a month, the C.D.C. lost credibility as the nation’s leading public health agency and the country lost ground in ways that continue to haunt grieving families, the sick and the worried well from one state to the next.
When the NYT wrote that the CDC 'lost credibility' they were just performing optics. All reporting after that portrayed CDC as the infallible gold-standard of medical professionalism. Interesting the NYT knows how to limbo like that. One day "tsk tsk tsk" and the next day (literally) "KNEEL AND KISS THE RING!"