CDC’s Diagnostic Test for COVID-19 Only and Supplies

Center for Disease Control and Prevention ^ | July 3, 2020

[LOC1]

On June 12, 2020, the FDA granted an amendment to the EUA for the CDC diagnostic test used to detect COVID 19 to address global shortages of materials needed to perform the test. This amendment provides alternatives for processing the test:

Four additional extraction reagents were approved that can be used in the existing extraction methods; An additional extraction instrument and associated reagents were approved; and a new process that can be used in place of the extraction method when materials for the current method are limited

[LOC1]

Did the June 12 changes in approved test procedures and reagents for detecting COVID 19 have an impact on the increase in COVID 19 cases reported in the US beginning in mid June?

[ransomnote]

Excellent question! I bet you’re right.

[little jeremiah]

I wonder if testing swabs dipped in saline testing positive had anything to do with “surge” of positives, or tests sent in with no swabs at all. All of this happens.... or adding “presumptive/probables” that did not test positive which is the CDC’s improved way of bulking up the numbers.

CDC is just as corrupt as other fed agencies were when Trump took office and needs a hot high colonic. Best, dismantle entirely.

[corkoman]

why is the CDC involved at all in manufacture of testing kits??

We have the Abbott fast response test and I cannot fathom how thousands of these are not flooding the affected states?

Ok I looked it up:

ID NOW – Our rapid, portable testing instrument used in urgent care clinics, hospital emergency departments, and physicians' offices We have shipped nearly 4.5 million of our rapid ID NOW tests to all 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the Pacific Islands. The majority of these tests have been sent to outbreak hotspots and we've asked that customers prioritize frontline health care workers and first responders.

Molecular lab tests – Our high-volume molecular laboratory instruments to detect novel coronavirus We have shipped nearly 4 million molecular lab tests (m2000 and Alinity m) in the U.S. Antibody lab tests – Our lab-based antibody blood tests to help determine if a person was previously infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 We have shipped nearly 12.1 million ARCHITECT and Alinity™ i COVID-19 antibody tests to customers across the U.S. We received CE Mark for the ARCHITECT test and are shipping to several other countries.