A Seattle lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators

The Week ^ | Mar 11, 2020 | Peter Weber

[DannyTN]

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State health officials joined Chu in asking the CDC and Food and Drug Administration to waive privacy rules and allow clinical tests in a research lab, citing the threat of significant loss of life. The CDC and FDA said no. "We felt like we were sitting, waiting for the pandemic to emerge," Chu told the Times. "We could help. We couldn't do anything."

They held off for a couple of weeks, but on Feb. 25, Chu and her colleagues "began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval," the Times reports. They found a positive case pretty quickly, and after discussing the ethics, they told state health officials, who confirmed the next day that a teenager who hadn't traveled abroad had COVID-19 — and the virus had likely been spreading undetected throughout the Seattle area for weeks. Later that day, the CDC and FDA told Chu and her colleagues to stop testing, then partially relented, and the lab found several more cases. On Monday night, they were ordered to stop testing again. ...

[Osage Orange]

and no herd immunity to it

Excuse me...there are thousands, maybe millions that are not getting the Corona 19

[bkopto]

1. Social distancing is effective.
2. Or that’s because it hasn’t reach them yet.

[bkopto]

3. Or they haven’t been tested for it, because of mild presentation.

[gogeo]

State health officials joined Chu in asking the CDC and Food and Drug Administration to waive privacy rules and allow clinical tests in a research lab

That's not red tape.

[Osage Orange]

Okay whatever

[Osage Orange]

Okay whatever..again.

[Svartalfiar]

I’m confused. Why would a State or a private lab need permission from the CDC to conduct testing for any pathogen?

[DannyTN]

I’m not sure either.
I believe someone posted that it’s tied up in Obamacare regulations. And worse the agencies CDC, FDA were not taking responsibility and pointing at each other.