FDA investigates lab as tens of thousands of COVID-19 test results in Florida are questioned

[Baitball Blogger]

Federal regulators are investigating a Texas laboratory that a Florida hospital chain dropped last week because of delayed and unreliable COVID-19 test results.

AdventHealth, which has 45 hospitals in nine states, terminated its Florida contract with MicroGen DX due to concerns about the validity of some of the 60,000 tests MicroGen had processed for the system because the lab left them at room temperature for days, according to an AdventHealth statement. The specimens should be refrigerated at 2 to 7 degrees Celsius (about 32 degrees Fahrenheit) and then put in freezers at -70 degrees Celsius after three days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

MicroGen promotes shipping COVID-19 sputum (mucus) samples through FedEx on its website.

The company is also selling a saliva-only test that can be administered in a "hospital, clinic, drive-thru clinic or at-home," in all 50 states without an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, said MicroGen spokeswoman Ashley Moore. An authorized Emergency Use Authorization is required in a public health emergency, according to the Food and Drug Administration, for "any COVID-19 test for at-home testing, with or without the use of telemedicine."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/21/fda-investigates-microgen-dx-lab-covid-19-test-results-questioned/5222340002/?fbclid=IwAR3TNz7QtIpXgdMwnKaoE36agEi7NyFWC_y-4kdUJwRtwlYiAjiLNFHeOWg

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I have heard various stories about the unreliability of tests.

Too many false negatives, too many false positives. I don't think much has been put out there about this. It certainly doesn't seem as if any companies producing the tests is showing us exactly how good theirs are.

[Blue_true]

2. It is a free for all now.

The complete lack of leadership from Trump has made that possible.

Countries that relied on the WHO test are moving ahead with life, because they have a reliable test, and are testing and contact tracing.

[Roland99]

3. That's from 2 months ago

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Yesterday, in Seminole County alone, there was an adjustment of

16208 tests under the "inconclusive test" category.

I think that we are hearing more about these things now, only because they made a decision about something that was in question for sometime.

I still hear that people are getting weird results. On Facebook, someone that was in a car line, checked in by appointment, but didn't stay for the test. They left, and later got a result through email stating that he was positive -- he didn't even give them a sample!

[Roland99]

5. I've heard that story tons of times and it's always almost the exact same wording

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I saw the same meme, again, today on Facebook and someone questioned it,

asking for the email from the relatives. It was received with silence. So, yes, I agree with you. False information.

The real threat about those tests seems to be that the White House is going to circumvent the CDC. Now we really won't know what's going on. The White House has so many ways to gaslight us!

[not_the_one]

7. Just something else the turd can through out there saying

"SEE! All those positives were actually negatives. FAKE HOAX VIRUS."