Test developers frustrated by FDA’s resistance to at-home testing

bioworld.com ^ | March 25 2020 | Mark McCarty

[AnotherUnixGeek]

However, the FDA has indicated that it is wary of both at-home testing and specimen collection in other than supervised settings

Why? The FDA's role is to ensure the safety of food and drugs, not to serve as nanny preventing people from taking control of their health care and getting a complete picture of their own health. Why does the FDA have any say in testing for diseases or hereditary conditions?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There are really only two things government is good at:

1) Killing people

2) Selling monopolies

They are not about to give up either of those things.

[Sacajaweau]

The government wants your DNA....period.

[Amendment10]

There’s nothing preventing people from ignoring positive results of a COVID-19 home test for example, especially if there’s a party tonight.

Insights welcome.

[rintintin]

“The government wants your DNA....period.”

Then why are they slow-walking other testing processes and protocols? FDA and CDC have been slow-walking the roll-out of testing for two months.

[Irenic]

yip

[gibsonguy]

You bet they do. This is a golden opportunity, they aren’t about to let it slip away.

[rintintin]

“There’s nothing preventing people from ignoring positive results of a COVID-19 home test for example, especially if there’s a party tonight.”

So you’re defending the FDA’s blocking of tests? Because hey, tests don’t matter anyway? The bureaucrats LOVE folks who come up with creative defenses for them! I’m sure they’re saying, “why didn’t we think of that excuse for our inaction, arrogance and blundering”?

[rintintin]

” This is a golden opportunity, they aren’t about to let it slip away.”

They have been blocking the development of tests for two months. I don’t see them as seizing any opportunities, except for the opportunity to remind people that they’re the bosses.

[LastDayz]

I just want access to a highly accurate serology test that will tell me whether I have a crap-ton, a few, or no COVID-19 antibodies.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Allowing people to self-test means giving up power.

[sanjuanbob]

Guess I won’t be getting tested.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There’s nothing preventing people from ignoring positive results of a COVID-19 home test for example, especially if there’s a party tonight.

There is nothing that prevents you from ignoring positive results of a Wuhan-400 home test now.

Do you think they put an ankle monitor on you to see that you go home?

Maybe I should not give them ideas.

[Sacajaweau]

Creating a database takes a little bit of time. You don't want to wish you had inserted another parameter.

It will be the largest nationwide database ever created and a golden opportunity for the government.

They'll insert what they already have,,,with some blank spaces.

[Truthoverpower]

The FDA , almost more than anybody else , has been completely exposed during this whole episode

They are slow and bureaucratic and filled with Government-idiots

They are used to plodding along , doing research writing papers and giving talks

This whole thing forced the fire to be lit under their ass and they just started scrambling

and of course , Trump got quickly fed up with them ! and just went right over their heads to Abbott laboratories and Bayer and and all the great minds of pharmacology and pharmaceutical industry

and just totally bypassed them.

They’re still trying to show that they have some relevance but I’m reminded of the famous quote that the government is the”c”’ people of the world

Are the kids in school who got C’s and just got a long barely got by but passed

[Secret Agent Man]

Government doesnt trust citizens.

But govern,ent demands we trust government.

Phruck government.

[a fool in paradise]

>>There’s nothing preventing people from ignoring positive results of a COVID-19 home test for example, especially if there’s a party tonight.

The Left has repealed laws requieing those with HIV/AIDS to disclose their disease status to potential sex partners. Informed consent, what’s that?

Some diseases are more equal than others. AIDS PRIDE.

[a fool in paradise]

>>There’s nothing preventing people from ignoring positive results of a COVID-19 home test for example, especially if there’s a party tonight.

There were people who’d had their CV19 positive status confirmed by hospitals and still they flew anyway.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The government wants your DNA....period.

. . . but there are ironclad prohibitions against lying to a FISA court ^{clandestinely analyzing the blood sample you gave at the doctor’s office to get it.}

How could there be a problem!