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Laurie Garrett
@Laurie_Garrett
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This is a must-read by
@sciencecohen
explaining all the snafus and idiotic bureaucratic reasons why the USA can’t tst for
#COVID19 infections in Americans. We are FAR behind the rest of the world. Utter madness.

The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing—but things may soon improve

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve

[LilFarmer]

So they knew about the problem on Feb 12, why did the CDC wait until the 24th to ask the FDA for a waiver? And why did it mean the administration having to put VP Pence in charge to fix it?

I still say this test fiasco was sabotage by some in the CDC

[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.

[Paul R.]

Thanks for posting that. It’s precisely the information I’ve been hoping someone would find.

Freakin’ bureaucracy...

THIS is why we need someone with the authority of the Vice President to blast this BS out of the way.

There was more than one hoarse voice at that presser today. I’ll bet Pres. Trump was VERY close to chopping some heads, prior.

At least they got out some firm numbers on masks. The same is needed for testing capability.