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Substandard practices reportedly exposed the novel COVID-19 coronavirus test kits manufactured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to contamination. That in turn led to a delay in ...
Washington has recalled roughly 12,000 coronavirus testing kits in the state "due to possible contamination." The state health department said Sunday it had been alerted of a potential "quality ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab is being investigated for having produced potentially faulty coronavirus test kits, according to reports.
This list of laboratory biosecurity incidents includes accidental laboratory-acquired infections and laboratory releases of lethal pathogens, containment failures in or during transport of lethal pathogens, and incidents of exposure of lethal pathogens to laboratory personnel, improper disposal of contaminated waste, and/or the escape of laboratory animals.
The landscape of shortages changed dramatically over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, extreme shortages emerged in the equipment needed to protect healthcare workers, diagnostic testing, equipment and staffing to provide care to seriously ill patients, and basic consumer goods disrupted by panic buying. Many commercial and ...
The WHO did not offer any test kits to the U.S. because the U.S. normally had the supplies to produce their own tests. [3] The United States had a slow start in widespread SARS-CoV-2 testing. [4] [5] From the start of the outbreak until early March 2020, the CDC gave restrictive guidelines on who should be eligible for COVID-19 testing. The ...
New York state's Department of Health filed an emergency application on Friday with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be allowed to use a testing kit for the new coronavirus it has ...
In February 2020, the company collaborated with the Vietnam Military Medical University to develop a domestically manufactured COVID-19 RT-PCR test that was released one month later; its quick deployment has been cited as a factor in the early success of Vietnam's zero-COVID policy, with ten other countries considering buying Việt Á tests ...