Posted on 02/28/2020 6:40:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Federal health officials met with state and city public health labs on Wednesday to fix a crippling lack of options to diagnose the novel coronavirus, a shortfall driven by botched CDC testing kits. As a result, New York state and New York City are moving forward with developing their own test to detect the virus.
The lack of adequate testing capabilities was spotlighted on Wednesday evening, when the CDC announced delayed results of the first potential case of a person contracting COVID-19 from “community spread,” meaning they got sick without traveling to China or being exposed to anyone known to have the virus.
Early in February, the CDC released a US genetic test for the virus, sent to about 100 state and major city labs as well as overseas ones. Test kits contained enough ingredients to test a few hundred people for the novel coronavirus. The test proved unreliable in validation tests run by labs, however, leaving fewer than a dozen of the labs nationwide confident of the results.
The shortfall figured in the extended diagnosis of the Solano County, California, woman reported Wednesday night as the first person in the US with COVID-19 from community exposure. UC Davis Medical Center said that her test results were delayed because neither the county or state lab could run them, and because her symptoms did not initially meet federal diagnostic criteria. The test took four days to approve, and a week later, the CDC announced that the patient had tested positive.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed frustration with the test shortfall at a news conference on Thursday.
The episode is spurring concern over US testing capabilities among public health officials, as cities and states gear up for possible outbreaks across the country. As the CDC scrambles to fix its original test,
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New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Deputy Commissioner Demetre Daskalakis confirmed that New York City and New York State public health labs found problems in their use of the original CDC test kit. The FDA gave the labs permission to work on their own genetic test for the virus, an unprecedented move for state labs, and they are first in line for a brand-new CDC test still under development.
“The only question is which will come on line first,” Daskalakis said.
He added that New York is not solely dependent on the tests for monitoring outbreaks of the coronavirus, maintaining hourly reports of pneumonia and flu arrivals at emergency rooms. A sudden spike in those numbers in a cluster would trigger a response even before test results, he said.
Has anyone tracked down who supplied the botched test kits to the CDC, with the supposedly faulty reagent? And who at the CDC didn’t “catch it”?
Heads IMO should have rolled by now, considering the lives it may have cost.
And New York has its hands out for Federal money for this, too, right?
Rod Rosenstein’s sister’s CDC organization is responsible for production of the detection kits. Is this failure due to incompetence, corruption (awarding contracts to cronies) or is it INTENTIONAL?
I’m a stealing that pic....
NYC Health Commissioner: Rats Are Not A Health Risk
I live in NYS. I'll take Fedzilla over NYC/S any day.
Buzzfeed is part of the effort to use the virus to tank the economy. The rat states are joining the effort. They see it as the gift to take Trump’s numbers down far enough to make him vulnerable.
Has anyone tracked down who supplied the botched test kits to the CDC, with the supposedly faulty reagent? And who at the CDC didn’t “catch it”?
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Check with Rod Rosenstein’s sister Dr. Nancy Messonnier, who heads the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. IT’S HER JOB!
Cui bono.
Who’s gonna make big bucks from Albany’s sudden concern for the public health.
Follow the money.
In all .gov organization the pattern is that the political types at the top are some combination of scheming, corrupt, and incompetent.
They are usually sociopaths highly skilled in back-stabbing, finger-pointing, lying, and plotting. That is often combined with a lack of technical skills to effectively supervise operations.
The worker bees usually just do their jobs, some better than others.
With some exceptions, that’s been my experience when dealing with them.
Maybe, just maybe, this will be the first thing democrats have touched that they didn't screw up.Bring Out Your DeadBet your life on it!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
They will find something in this to blame on Trump.
We’ll know soon which bureaucracies ARE NOT EARNING THEIR KEEP...
Note that CDC test kits are a thing the civil servants do, and has nothing to do with the leadership. They screwed it up, it isn’t like Trump WANTED to have bad tests.
Complete leftist nonsense!
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