NPR: Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'

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5. They just recently rolled out the tests

If there’s one positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s the speed at which diagnostic test makers learned to develop and begin churning out kits to test for a virus.

Roche, for one, is already applying what it learned from COVID to the next infectious disease outbreak. Only a few weeks after a spate of monkeypox cases first cropped up in Europe, the company has completed development of three separate tests for the virus.

Developed in conjunction with its subsidiary TIB Molbiol, Roche’s tests are already available to scientists for research use “in the majority of countries worldwide,” the Swiss company said Wednesday.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/roche-rolls-out-trio-pcr-research-tests-monkeypox