New York Is Making Its Own Coronavirus Test After The CDC’s Tests Have Repeatedly Failed

Buzzfeed News ^ | Feb 27, 2020 | Dan Vergano

[DannyTN]

Federal health officials met with state and city public health labs on Wednesday to fix a crippling lack of options to diagnose the novel coronavirus, a shortfall driven by botched CDC testing kits. As a result, New York state and New York City are moving forward with developing their own test to detect the virus.

The lack of adequate testing capabilities was spotlighted on Wednesday evening, when the CDC announced delayed results of the first potential case of a person contracting COVID-19 from “community spread,” meaning they got sick without traveling to China or being exposed to anyone known to have the virus. ...

[DannyTN]

Good Idea New York!!!!

I don't say that very often!

[blackdog]

If the test involves drinking a large beverage from a cup, it will be illegal.

[rfp1234]

Gov. Cuomo vs. Gov. Newsom at the brokered Rat convention. It could happen.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Bloomy taking credit for this, 3...2...1...

[ptsal]

When will Mayor Bill be given his city-state seat at the UN?

[Vaquero]

Don’t think NY can or will get it right.

[100American]

Newsome is a worthless turd swirling in a toilet of his own making

Also he is related by Marriage to Pelosi and others, I would not give a penny towards anything short of throwing him from office for all that he has done to California!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Federal health officials met with state and city public health labs on Wednesday to fix a crippling lack of options to diagnose the novel coronavirus, a shortfall driven by botched CDC testing kits. As a result, New York state and New York City are moving forward with developing their own test to detect the virus.

Democrat politician can't even count votes, but they are expert virologists.

[Karl Spooner]

The CDC did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

In other words, the CDC is PO'd about it.

[rfp1234]

Agree 1000%, but the Rats love turds like him and Cuomo.

[mythenjoseph]

The presumption that it is “community spread!” is absurd.....the person didn’t obtain the new flu just out of the blue......contact somewhere / somehow happened....so sick of the knee jerk chicken little attitude about this whole corona virus reaction and over hype by all concerned . I do not state this without understanding the seriousness of the flu itself....but GEE I KNOW.......8.2 BILLION more dollars will fix it ...Crying chuckie said so!

[Grampa Dave]

This why most headlines good or bad about the Corona Virus are probably bs.

CDC Has Fixed Issue Delaying Coronavirus Testing In U.S., Health Officials Say
February 27, 202010:01 AM ET

Updated at 11:50 a.m. ET

Federal health officials say they have resolved a problem that has hindered wide testing for the new coronavirus in the United States, a crucial practice for fighting the spread of the dangerous new infection.

A problem with one ingredient in test kits that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention distributed to labs around the country had created a frustrating bottleneck in testing, requiring most testing to occur at the CDC in Atlanta.

On Wednesday night, the CDC announced a new case of the COVID-19 disease in California that could represent the first U.S. case of the virus spreading within the general population. That diagnosis was delayed because testing wasn’t done immediately.

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But the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration informed state officials late Wednesday that the agencies have resolved the problem with the test kits.

“The FDA has authorized the use of those tests by using just the first and second step to provide a definitive diagnostic,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during a congressional hearing Thursday.

Forty labs — local and state public health labs as well as select department of defense labs — across the U.S. are already authorized to start using the modified test, and all 93 labs should be able to start testing by next week, Azar said.

The move was welcomed by public health officials, who have been frustrated by the testing snag.

“It’s really good news,” says Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases for the Association of Public Health Laboratories, which represents public health labs around the United States. “Testing is incredibly important.”

Without wide-scale testing, she says, there’s no way to know if the virus is spreading silently.

“This is a critical time,” Wroblewski says. “We don’t think it’s spreading very widely yet, but if you’re not looking for something, you won’t find it.”

Cases could go undiagnosed, delaying treatment and allowing infected people to spread the virus to others, she says.

“Once you know that it’s there, you can take appropriate steps to encourage people who might have the disease to stay home — to self-quarantine. You would probably go ahead and test their family members to see if their close contacts have also got the disease,” she says. “You can maybe limit the spread if you catch it early.”

Frustrated by the problems with the CDC kits, the association had asked the FDA to allow individual states to develop and use their own tests. But Wroblewski says the resolution of the problem with the CDC will hopefully make that unnecessary

“Having these additional laboratories on board and ready to test is going to put us in a much, much better position to respond,” Wroblewski says.

Still no definite word on when the labs will get the new improved test!

[Skywise]

More Democrat propaganda.

[avital2]

considering how new this strain is it seems that things are moving along pretty quickly - although not without problems.

[bert]

New York is a sanctuary. Federal funds can be withdrawn from this unnecessary purely political effort

[100American]

If I may pivot from your comment...

The smellier the Turd

The bigger the Herd!

[TexasGator]

“The presumption that it is “community spread!” is absurd.....the person didn’t obtain the new flu just out of the blue......contact somewhere / somehow happened....so sick of the knee jerk chicken little attitude about this whole corona virus reaction and over hype by all concerned “

Grammar alert!

[null and void]

Nature, and apparently New York, abhors a vacuum...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[gandalftb]

Breaking, Mt. Sinai research now has a definitive test by using a CT Scan.

[AndyJackson]

The problem with the kits to date has been unreliability - false positives, false negatives and indeterminate outcomes. Despite the temptation to be insouciant, accuracy actually matters and a small number of false positives or false negatives can either unnecessarily overwhelm treatment facilities or undermine any effort at infection control - or both.

While other countries have more plentiful kits available, the criticism is that they are not as reliable as is needed.