After missteps, CDC says its coronavirus test kit is ready for primetime

NBC NEWS ^ | Today | Elizabeth Chuck

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Some states received test kits that were inconclusive or only partially accurate. Other states said they were hamstrung by testing criteria so narrow, it limited who they could screen for the new coronavirus.

For more than a month, officials throughout the country have been asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enable more widespread testing for the never-before-seen infection, as coronavirus cases around the globe rose past 82,000.

But technical difficulties reduced the number of laboratories in the U.S. with working test kits to only about a dozen, including CDC headquarters in Atlanta. That delayed results for suspected patients and frustrated public health authorities.

Things changed this week: Top federal health officials announced they had modified the testing protocol, expanded criteria for who could be tested and worked out the technical problems with the tests, positioning more state and local laboratories to finally have the ability to test for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. But, the officials acknowledged, the process was rocky.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If she screwed this up intentionally in order to hurt the President, may she be swinging from a rope when this is all over.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I figure state and local health departments, along with good medical professionals, can take care of most of this. They seem to be the way to go, given the CDC’s towering incompetence in this matter. Most people in this country will be smart enough to self-quarantine or limit outside trips if diagnosed with this virus.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hopefully, the dittohead trolls are right on the idea that, like the flu, this will go away as temperatures rise, giving us breathing room to develop the vaccine before next winter.

[House Atreides]

A doc said they can identity it with a CAT scan, which nearly every hospital can do.
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They can’t give every patient presenting with a slight cough and a temporary spike in temperature a chest CAT scan.

[sauropod]

Uh-huh

[Grampa Dave]

They can’t give every patient presenting with a slight cough and a temporary spike in temperature a chest CAT scan.

Thanks for the reality check!

[ncalburt]

No elites been allowed in the real world with the serfs in years .

[null and void]

They cook their own food?

[ncalburt]

i bet those folks were in quarantine for three weeks before they were allowed to cook .
I think everyone is tested every day there .

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The other sense in which such issues "go away" is the news cycle. Right now the US has not had working test kits available. In the next month you should see the results from testing with the fixed kits. If they detect tens of thousands of new cases that will be big news, at least for a while, but researchers are also working on treatments and vaccines.

Dems are probably fuming that this happened 9 months before the election instead of 3 months.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

See #70

[Lazamataz]