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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 ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab is being investigated for having produced potentially faulty coronavirus test kits, according to reports.
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 ...
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 ...
The development of COVID-19 tests was a major public health priority during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2020, scientists from China published the first genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 via virological.org , [ 3 ] a "hub for prepublication data designed to assist with public health activities and research". [ 4 ]
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 ...
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 May 2020, The Atlantic reported that the CDC was conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests – tests that diagnose current coronavirus infections, and tests that measure whether someone has ever had the virus. The magazine said this distorted several important metrics, provided the country with an inaccurate picture ...