Posted on 03/23/2020 10:04:19 PM PDT by rintintin
The first testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.
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Few health institutions around the world are as renowned as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Which makes it all the more baffling that the CDC could have fumbled the rollout of coronavirus diagnostic tests throughout the country so badly. While other countries have been able to run millions of tests, the CDC has tested only 1,235 patients. Speed is of the essence when dealing with an epidemic early, and the CDC’s mistakes are already proving costly to tracking the outbreak in the US.
On February 5 the CDC began to send out coronavirus test kits, but many of the kits were soon found to have faulty negative controls (what shows up when coronavirus is absent), caused by contaminated reagents. This was probably a side effect of a rushed job to put the kits together. Labs with failed negative controls had to ship their samples to the CDC itself for testing.
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Bureaucracies kill.
Lies.
Every Governor had the authority to test and treat his people however he wanted.
\CDC, at Fed cost, was the cheapest avenue. And they chose that.
Governors failed, miserably.
This was done on purpose.Man these bastards are evil.
As a side note for a city that’s supposed to be cured and back to work Wuhan doesn’t look very busy to me,rotates to different places in the city.
In our world of interconnectedness, social-networks and particularly “crowd-sourcing” to solve problems in everything from finance and research — it would seem that the top-down, progressive-socialist bureaucratic model appears even more to be a dinosaur heading for extinction.
Worried about EVERYTHING EXCEPT DISEASE CONTROL!! LOSERS!
I don’t think that’s true. I think the CDC had to approve the tests, until Trump changed policy.
the CDC created the possibility of a single point of failure, and then they failed.
I sure this will be dissected and hashed out in the future, but it sounds like a case of “not invented here”.
Even if the CDC started on their own “better” test they should have also authorized the S Korean test and or the WHO test (which was German, I believe)
It never made sense to me that the University of California, Davis had to send to Atlanta and wait for results.
CDC. Rosenstein’s sister. faulty tests.
why, it sounds almost like an “insurance policy”. lol.
This propaganda is dated March 5th. Kind of old and stale.
They didn’t.
But that was how the bureaucracy saw it.
“Who pays?”
They didn’t.
But that was how the bureaucracy saw it.
“Who pays?”
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Sure doesn’t look very busy!
Not a surprise. They are a research facility. Not known for mfg or distribution
In the end they are a great big govt bureaucracy.... not known for efficiency or speed
They question of “why” is idiotic and prosecutorial.
The actual question is “How”
the CDC has tested only 1,235 patients...
That’s a lie and I think people that post weeks or months or sometimes YEARS old stories without mentioning that in the title thread should be suspended for a week.
This isn’t a site for personal agenda threads.
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