US health authority shipped faulty coronavirus test kits across country

DispatchLive ^ | 13 February 2020 | AFP

[DannyTN]

A number of test kits sent out by US health authorities to labs across the country to diagnose the deadly novel coronavirus are faulty, a senior official said Wednesday.

[DannyTN]

CDC is doing all tests again.

[proud American in Canada]

Well, that’s good they’re redoing the tests. However, on Tucker Carlson tonight, he said that the virus can be transmitted through pipes, if there’s even the smallest crack or whatever. Now that’s something to really think about.

[Cvengr]

I seem to remember having one of those test kits back in the closet somewhere.

[Jyotishi]

Only a highly skilled actor could have maintained a straight face shooting that scene.

[ImNotLying]

Looks like LtCol Vindman in that picture! :) Oh ho say can you see!

[topher]

Viruses are like the 'itty, bitty baby' from the 1960s song with the recurring phrase "He's got the whole world in His hands".

What is the size of the Spanish Flu/Corona Virus? How does it compare to a red blood cell of the human body or a t-cell in the immune system?

[topher]

I feel that there should be four categories tracked:

1. Number of People Infected

2. Number of People that die

3. Number of People that are cured.

The missing category is:

Number of People with serious injuries (damaged organs such lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, etc)

This also applies to the World Health Organization (WHO)

[Rashputin]

"We think that the issue at the stage, can be explained by one reagent that isn't performing as it should, consistently," she said, referring to one the substances used in the kit. "And that's why we are remanufacturing that reagent."

No doubt this time they're not buying test kits from Hu PhukedDup, Inc. in Shenzhen, China

[PIF]

The missing category is:

Number of People with serious injuries (damaged organs such lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, etc)

-> a) Deaths from the Number of People with serious injuries (damaged organs such lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, etc)

-> b) Above total added to #2. Number of People that die (directly from the virus).

[topher]

Heavy smokers (which may include 'pot' are likely to have very serious problems if they survive.

One of the earliest patients treated in Wuhan was put on an artificial breathing aparatus, but still died.

As I recall, there may have been a second case like this.

[mewzilla]

More on the test kit here, though no mentions yet of the problem with reagents...

Requests for Diagnostic Tools and Virus

[yldstrk]

faulty how?

[Karl Spooner]

Snicker. It was no accident.

[eartick]

faulty how?

They sent out Cracker Jacks with no prize inside. I am not sure that a virus that has never been seen, has no cure can have a test kit.

How is that possible?

Is it like a pregnancy test, turning blue, red or skull and crossbones?