Posted on 01/27/2020 5:13:22 PM PST by Mariner
Red tape could slow down the testing process for 110 possible American cases of the deadly coronavirus across 26 states and dozens of others in the future.
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the number of US cases had not increased but that they expect to test a growing number of potential patients in the coming days and weeks.
Five cases have been confirmed in the US so far. However, because the CDC's laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, is the only place in the country currently equipped with a blood test that accurately diagnoses the virus, the true number of infected people could be higher.
The federal health lab's test is fast - taking just four to six hours - but it's prioritizing only the sickest-seeming patients.
So far, there have been 32 patients confirmed negative, but the testing process could be bottlenecked until the CDC and FDA can work around the bureaucracy that prevents the test from being distributed throughout the country.
To that end, last week, the CDC requested emergency authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration for the tests to be sent to the states.
'Part of the delay is the sample getting to CDC, and entirely one of the reasons we are focusing on the possibility of getting those tests out closer to the patients so the results can become available more quickly,' Dr Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, said in a call to reporters last week.
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The Dems won’t let this crisis go to waste.
Waiting on FDA??
We’ll all be dead from old age by then!
True statement.
You should see their campus in Atlanta. It’s obscene
True statement.
If this becomes an epidemic in this country it will be because Trump and the evil Republicans reduced them to abject poverty. Wait for it.
Give us money or we’ll let you die.
Thanks for posting. I’ve been following this on other forums, and haven’t come to any logical conclusions yet. Event 201 is interesting. Link from poster at zero hedge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IGppS2WOQ&t=216s
Another “insurance policy” for CRIMINAL STATE operatives?
If my lib friends want to close. Chinese air travel and student coming here .
Then people are noticing this .
Why would anyone trust the Chinese Commie dictatorship figures .
Good q.
I would think right now that people from affected areas who turn up on radar screens get the best immediate attention and testing - which is probably expensive. They're telling us it' only a handful at this point.
If it goes "viral" in any population, that level of attention wouldn't be possible, or even advisable. At that point I probably wouldn't go anywhere near medical institutions for testing or anything else.
Our government needs to get serious about this. Everyone I know is already making lists and buying supplies. There is a lot of concern about this virus. We are all sick to death of this silly impeachment. It should have been dismissed and never entertained in the senate. Thee are far more important issues facing our country. It is time for the losers in DC to get back to work and stop behaving so badly they disgust a two year old.
Thanks.........kinda damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Xiangguo Qiu — who was escorted out of the Winnipeg lab in July amid an RCMP investigation into what's being described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible "policy breach" — was invited to go to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences twice a year for two years, for up to two weeks each time.
Thanks Mariner.
Actually, we are all better off with DC working on impeachment 24/7. The last thing we need are those clowns in the kitchen right now.
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