04-23-2020, 02:44 PM
(04-23-2020, 01:28 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci/special-report-former-labradoodle-breeder-was-tapped-to-lead-u-s-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE
Before Pence took over, the guy running the Covid-19 response was a guy with no formal education or experience in anything health related outside of 3 years on and off serving as an aide. He spent twice as much time in his career breeding dogs...
During that crucial first month, he left out the FDA in the task force and failed to push the CDC to make its own tests, even as The WHO and other nations were.
LabCorp uses a coronavirus test manufactured by Abbott Labs. They were using that test in China in January. Abbott Labs didn’t get emergency use authorization for their test in the US from the FDA until mid-March after discovering the false positive problem with the CDC test. At which point they needed to produce and ship the test in the US. Because Abbott’s manufacturing plant in China doesn’t export that test to the US.