Posted on 04/19/2020 4:47:00 AM PDT by rintintin
Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nations first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.
Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Early on, the F.D.A., which oversees laboratory tests, sent Dr. Timothy Stenzel, chief of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the C.D.C. labs to assess the problem, several officials said. He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said.
Problems ranged from researchers entering and exiting the coronavirus laboratories without changing their coats, to test ingredients being assembled in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples, officials said. Those practices made the tests sent to public health labs unusable because they were contaminated with the coronavirus, and produced some inconclusive results.
n a statement on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., Stephanie Caccomo, said, C.D.C. did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.
The F.D.A. confirmed its conclusions late this week after several media outlets requested public disclosure of its inquiry, which assuredly is part of a larger federal investigation into the C.D.C. lab irregularities by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Forced to suspend the launch of a nationwide detection program for the coronavirus for a month, the C.D.C. lost credibility as the nations leading public health agency and the country lost ground in ways that continue to haunt grieving families, the sick and the worried well from one state to the next.
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The more important question is whether the CDC has employed the correct number of diversity people and placed them in positions of authority. Who cares about some stupid test?
Both of these career administrator “doctors” need to be waterboarded. What compromised, political-agenda-driven losers. They are part of the pathetic, anti-Free-America swamp. I would bet their integrity has been compromised over their years of “service” in government. That would be no surprise.
Good plan.
bookmark.
CDC is contaminated alright. It shows daily.
Loaded with bureaucrats that do anything to protect their jobs.
Wait a minute, aren’t “official experts” ALWAYS RIGHT???
Doesn’t just giving them their official “expert” titles and positions imbue them with intelligence far above any other “experts” you could find, on the subjects on which they are the official “experts”??? /sarc
When this thing is over fully 80% of it needs to be gutted like a fish.
Unfortunately, while Trump is rightly calling out WHAo, hes said nothing about CDC and FDA. Even has their directors at his briefings
Trump calls out WHO, but not CDC and FDA. They failed us too
But but but they said this was trumps fault
He is rightly calling out WHO, but is silent on CDC and FDA. Not good, IMO
Trump will deal with the CDC and the FDA at a later date. Timing is everything. Turning them against him openly at this point is a mistake. They won’t see it coming. BTW there has already been major changes at the FDA. They have approved things in record time that just a few months ago would of taken years to get such approvals.
Trump will deal with the CDC and the FDA at a later date.
Hope so. But Ill believe that when I see it. Even at the FBI and CIA, he has continued to appoint bureaucratic insiders , even nevertrumpers. - even after those swamps tried to get him impeached
Basically I agree about the FBI and CIA. One big difference is that they didn’t cost a bunch of lives. I think that really bothers Trump.
Yup. The CDC was a big problem. When the time is right, I hope Trump goes after Redfield.
No surprise here. The CDC is a government entity, staffed by government workers who are rarely fired for lapses or bad judgment and the bulk of them are holdovers from Obama’s years of misrule.
holdovers from Obamas years of misrule.
Trump has had three years to clean house. I sure wish he had put more effort and strategy and discipline into draining the swamp in many, many agencies. He talks a great game. Follow through has been spotty at best
Wouldn’t matter where you put them, Loaded down with 0 stooges. Not got the flu acccinne right since the Swine Flu.. The head of CDC is a Liar, fudged his Ebola and Dengue Fever papers. Chris Christie stooge. All that OPIOID crisis was DOPE not pain meds. Many Veterans and civilians died of heart attacks, Strokes and Suicide all because Redfield and Addiction Shrink head of PROP LIED.
The NYT has no credibility.
But, I dont trust the CDCs credibility either so...meh.
Yeah, well, wadda ya gonna do?
Geez, dude.
Let me introduce you to the notion of the "Bubba."
The Bubba is a businessperson not particularly polished or articulate, seemingly unintelligent. Get into a business deal with a Bubba and you will find he owns your business, your pickup truck, your dog, and your wife.
Bubba is successful because folks pay more attention to the wrapper than the contents. Or, as the techies say: distracted by noise, not focused on signal.
See also Will Rogers.
Sadly, yes. They say Trump is the problem, if only you'd listened to the 'experts.'.
When we truly need fewer experts, and more Trump.
On purpose no doubt to hurt the President. To bring down our country under his administration.
It was no accidental contamination IMHO.
All planned. Can’t test the people, the virus spreads, people get sick, die, need to quarantine, shut down businesses, over whelm hospitals.
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