Expect a surge in coronavirus reports in the US

HHS has launched an investigation into CDC’s first round of coronavirus diagnostic tests that many public health laboratories across the country were unable to use because one component was flawed.

The delay in testing capacity has slowed the U.S. response to the coronavirus, which public health experts say impeded the detection of what are now outbreaks in multiple states. Only this week is the pace of testing beginning to step up.

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It is unclear which senior health officials, at which agencies, knew about the CDC test problems and when they learned of them. HHS is convening a team of scientists from outside the CDC to investigate the test development and its flaws, according to an HHS spokesperson. HHS gave no further details Sunday night on who the experts are, or whether they included government as well as outside scientists.

  Politico

Or, in this administration, any scientitsts at all.

It remains unclear why CDC developed its own coronavirus test, rather than relying on one distributed by the World Health Organization.

I'd question who is on the board or making money from the CDC and what their connection is to the Trump cabal to answer that question.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement late Sunday that once FDA learned of the issue, it worked with CDC. The agencies agreed to drop the part of the test that was making verification difficult. The hope is that the modification will allow many more public health labs to start testing for the coronavirus. Some of them have already begun to test — and more Covid-19 cases are being detected.

“FDA has confidence in the design and current manufacturing of the test that already have and are continuing to be distributed,” Hahn said.

But do WE have confidence in the FDA?