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 nation’s 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 nation’s 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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Trump is not your characteristic “Bubba.” He is a native New Yorker who relies on certain euphemisms like “beautiful” to describe various things “big beautiful economy” or “perfect” as in a “perfect phone call.”
Hard to believe he received an undergraduate degree from Wharton with “language” like that. I’m sure his “Bubba” stems from all the blue-collar workers Trump dealt with over the years. He wants to be perceived as just a “regular guy”to the masses. If you listen closely though, he will slip into “Wall Street” upon occasion when a reporter makes the fatal mistake of thinking he/she knows more about finance than the Donald.
I never watched “The Apprentice” and never followed Trump prior to the 2016 debates. There were many a time I just shook my head at what he said or how he said it. But again, you underestimate him at your own peril.
I can’t imagine having Obama, Clinton, or Biden, at the helm trying to navigate through this pandemic. If any one of those three had been in charge, we’d all be speaking Mandarin by the time the crisis was over.
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.//
Finally a statement by somebody who has a clue.
FEMA as a centralized FED agency will be the same story. Whether an earthquake, volcanic eruption, mega-tsunami, coronal mass ejection, or giant meteor befall the country—the best option is nimble response from a local district.
C.D.C
F.D.A.
No, he’s not the characteristic Bubba. I was illustrating the principle.
brilliant!
I understood you perfectly. I have seen this many times with people I have known.
This is why Trump ditched the whole CDC mess and brought all the private labs onboard.
They are processing millions of tests now.
You really should watch the task force briefings.
And if anyone is wondering the CDC Budget is $1.3B. Totally useless
https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/programs-impact/budget/index.htm
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