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Originally Posted by skarra
I don't get why the richest country in the world is at #42 on the tests/1M population chart ( Coronavirus Update (Live): 2,628,469 Cases and 183,491 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer). It is still very difficult to get a test weeks after we were promised they were available to everyone.
If we don't know where we stand re infections (the hidden threat), how can we make a sane decision that it's safe to go back to business as usual?
Hope is not a strategy. I've no confidence in what they're telling me - it is NOT safe to go back to "normal" until we get more testing done. |
The initial issue rested solely in the lap of the CDC. Historically, they work to develop tests and vaccines for various influenza types. That’s how the federal government has always handled, forever. In early February they developed and manufactured the tests and distributed only to revive feedback that there were flawed results. If those initial tests distributed provided results as designed than major private labs could produce the tests as well to meet demand. It wasn’t until the identification of the flawed results that a decision was made to allow the private sector e.g., diagnostic companies to develop and manufacture tests. Unfortunately this does not happen overnight yet the FDA did a great job in ramping up the approval process. Having worked in the medical device and diagnostic business for quite a long time I can tell you that the FDA had many requirements for the submission of tests whether antigen or antibody that did not have anything to do with the safety of the test or it’s efficacy specific to results. Moving forward hopefully the FDA will review all of its procedures to reduce the approval times without safety or efficacy being compromised