Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says there should have been a 'sense of urgency' about getting testing done.
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned there will likely be a dramatic acceleration of U.S. coronavirus cases the next two weeks as more testing detects new infections.
CDC developed and shipped testing kits in early February to state and local public health labs to begin testing for coronavirus. But a test kit glitch left state and local public health labs unable to confirm the test results. The flaw delayed rapid testing among state and local labs, just as the deadly respiratory virus gained a foothold among infected travelers returning to the United States.
The CDC said 78 public health labs in 50 states were testing for the virus as of Monday. The agency also relaxed testing guidelines to allow more people to get tested. Both academic labs and large private lab testing companies such as LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics are rolling out coronavirus tests after receiving FDA authorization.
Pinsky said he was concerned about the number of cases in China in late January and started evaluating the test his lab is using in early February. They were developing the test while they were in the process of applying to the FDA for permission to test, but it was still a time consuming process. Components were ordered from different suppliers, assembled and validated before they could be used.
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