Posted on 03/29/2020 10:10:21 AM PDT by rintintin
The United States is home to the most innovative biotech companies and university research laboratories in the world. That fact should have given our country a huge advantage with respect to detecting and monitoring emerging cases of COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus outbreak.
Instead, as The New York Times reports in a terrific new article, officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stymied private and academic development of diagnostic tests that might have provided an early warning and a head start on controlling the epidemic that is now spreading across the country.
As the Times reports, Seattle infectious disease expert Dr. Helen Chu had, by January, collected a huge number of nasal swabs from local residents who were experiencing symptoms as part of a research project on flu. She proposed, to federal and state officials, testing those samples for coronavirus infections. As the Times reports, the CDC told Chu and her team that they could not test the samples unless their laboratory test was approved by the FDA. The FDA refused to approve Chu's test on the grounds that her lab, according to the Times, "was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months."
In the meantime, the CDC required that public health officials could only use the diagnostic test designed by the agency. That test released on February 5 turned out to be badly flawed. The CDC's insistence on a top-down centralized testing regime
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CDC has outlived its usefulness.
It’s too big, and completely off-mission.
They’ll complain, “we didn’t have enough funds...”
Anyone in the CDC that makes that claim, needs to be brought up on charges.
Why the CDC botched its coronavirus testing
The first testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615323/why-the-cdc-botched-its-coronavirus-testing/
That’s from the MIT Technology Review.
I fear that in the wake of this event, due to political fissures, we will not get the proper review of CDC/NIH/FDA/Etc. that we should. Their performance has been abysmal. Convince me otherwise.
On that, go here: https://www.cdc.gov/ and do a site-wide search for Transgender.
2278 results.
Because PRIORITIES!
I fear that in the wake of this event, due to political fissures, we will not get the proper review
Your fears are well placed. Freepers have been bashing me all morning for saying the testing was screwed up and the bureaucrats needs to be reviewed and held accountable. They’re in circle the wagon mode
Well there you go!
One can’t expect the CDC to handle all this virus stuff, when there are important social justice issues at hand.
Over 18,000 hits for “diversity”.
“Testing” is a head fake. What is really needed is a cure, which is safe, available and inexpensive, yet two democrat governors have banned HCG and Fauxi has dragged his feet insisting on trials despite successful trials in other countries. Big Pharma lobbyistand the liberal left at work.
FDA, CDC Obamas fault
“Testing” is a head fake.
Tell Songapore. They tested everybody, and I isolated those with positive, and traced their contacts
That’s common sense public health policy
I searched CDC for Transgender. Is this a disease or a disorder?
China refused to give us a sample of COVID-19 until early January 2020.
It took the USA just 10 days to create a genetic test for a virus no one had ever seen before.
We had an initial problem with one of the reagents in our test kit, which took about seven more days to identify and correct.
The first USA infected person was identified on 21 January 2019.
The USA now has multiple test options, and it is has tested more people than any other country in the world.
“Testing” is a head fake. What is really needed is a cure, which is safe, available and inexpensive, yet two democrat governors have banned HCG and Fauxi has dragged his feet insisting on trials despite successful trials in other countries. Big Pharma lobbyistand the liberal left at work.
Amen. I have no idea why the press isn’t hammering these governors for what they are doing. There is something that looks to be pretty close to a cure and still people are dying. There may not be enough of it, but if that’s the story say that.
Here’s what I am hearing from the libtard in my family: “The CDC and FDA are executive agencies under the control of Trump...”
>> That’s common sense public health policy
That got thrown out the window with AIDS, from what I can tell.
Ask if he can walk into the executive suites and say “YOU’RE FIRED!”
If he cannot, they aren’t under his control, and this is a huge part of our problem as a country, and it goes far beyond those agencies.
Of course, it’s Trump who’s responsible for the whole mess /s/
“I have no idea why the press isn’t hammering these governors for what they are doing.”
For the same reason the press killed the Diane Feinstein insider trading story — They are all democrats.
People wonder why, and blame, the pharmaceutical companies for the reason testing is slow thus expensive. If this article doesn’t display what they are facing and are mostly innocent in the high costs and time of drug development, then people aren’t reading the words. In a way, I’m glad this got out. Send it to your friends that hate pharma. It will be an education.
rwood
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