And stay out of crowds! You're too important!
Obama ... with HELP FROM ROD ROSENSTEIN’S SISTER AT THE CDC.
Truly wish PDJT wouldn’t do that. I’d prefer to forget Obama was POTUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Redfield
The Director of the CDC has impeccable credentials, but was appointed in March, 2018. He has been in place long enough to have effected changes in the vaccine development...
That was the whole point.
The brown clown hated/hates the people of this country.
The rules had been changed so that when the public emergency was invoked, that the FDA now had to approve all of the locally invented test kits.
In away, it’s stupider than that, but also more arcane.
“The declaration of an emergency Jan 31 brought more powers to bear, but also invoked new rules. The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) had to figure out and then submit a request to the FDA to get around these rules (which the CDC wasn’t allowed to bypass) which didn’t normally exist, which wasn’t actually done until Feb 24. The APHL finally asked the FDA, and the FDA agreed to ignore the rules.”
Feb 28th:
“In principle, many hospital and academic labs around the country have the capability to carry out tests themselves.
The PCR reaction uses so-called primers, short stretches of DNA, to find viral sequences. The CDC website posts the primers used in its test, and WHO publicly catalogs other primers and protocols, too. Well-equipped state or local labs can use these—or come up with their own—to produce what are known as a “laboratory-developed tests” for in-house use.
“But at the moment, they’re not allowed to do that without FDA approval. When the United States declared the outbreak a public health emergency on 31 January, a bureaucratic process kicked in that requires FDA’s “emergency use approval” for any tests. “The declaration of a public health emergency did exactly what it shouldn’t have. It limited the diagnostic capacity of this country,” Mina says. “It’s insane.”
“On 24 February, APHL asked FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn for “enforcement discretion” to sidestep the emergency process and allow APHL members labs to use their own tests. On 26 February, Hahn replied that the CDC test could be modified to use just the primers that specifically detect SARS-CoV-2, essentially ignoring the faulty portion of the kits. FDA, in other words, would look the other way to make more widespread testing possible.
He’s much too magnanimous. I would like to know which diseases the CDC has controlled and/or prevented.
Forgive me if I’m a little behind, but what is the story the dems are spouting about on President Trump firing the entire pandemic response team in 2018?
Was the CDC head at PT conference earlier? I don’t remember his name but I didn’t see him there.
The CDC was infected with the “DIVERSITY VIRUS” the lazy a##es spent money on bullsh## when they should have been protecting the American people. I hope the fixing he did is kicking them all to the curb and re population the CDC with people who work for the American people and are people who are concerned with who they are and not what they are
Don’t forget about the leading credentialling association for lab testing personnel. Check out their list of distinguished speakers like HR clintoon.. and many others.
The constant addition of burdensome regulations are why you will experience problems with test availability.