04-23-2020, 12:42 AM
(04-22-2020, 08:43 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I was reading that a bunch of the early CDC tests were tainted. Not sure what it means. Higher numbers? Lower numbers? No way to know?
The problem with the CDC test they were working on detected the virus when no virus was present. So false positives.
They were planning on relying exclusively on the test developed by the CDC so they didn’t reach out to the private sector until after the CDC’s test turned out to be a failure. That’s when they issued the Emergency Use Authorization for commercial testing. That created more problems with test development.
The thing I don’t like about the EUA is that companies aren’t required to submit any validation info which means we don’t have the sensitivity and specificity data to understand how accurate the test is; like I explained the problem with the flu tests.