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The American clusterfuck. Varför testandet gick så fel.
Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests.
In what is already an infamous snafu, CDC initially refused a request to test a patient in Northern California who turned out to be the first probable COVID19 case without known links to an infected
person.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve
Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests.
In what is already an infamous snafu, CDC initially refused a request to test a patient in Northern California who turned out to be the first probable COVID19 case without known links to an infected
person.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve
De nya test kitsen verkar inte funka heller. Det har blivit politik av det hela. New York vill använda egna test kits.
f Public Health, said this week.
False Positives
New York City decided against using even the modified CDC tests after scientists found they produced false positives, said Stephanie Buhle, a spokeswoman for the municipal health department. The state is awaiting a brand new batch of redesigned tests from the CDC. In the meantime, it’s working on its own test independently, but that must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration before it can be used on the public.“Either way, we believe we will have a test that works in the coming weeks,” Buhle said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who flirted with a run for president, said the city had been fighting to use its own test for five weeks.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/states-and-cities-improvise-with-few-virus-test-kits-to-be-found-1.1397785
