The FDA is outsourcing COVID-19 testing to China
At least 10 Chinese companies have received FDA authorization for U.S. testing.
After reviewing the 161 emergency use authorizations granted by the FDA since February, I found that at least 10 Chinese companies were delivered the FDA stamp of approval to deliver diagnostic tests in the United States for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
These China-based companies have received FDA EUAs that grants them the ability to test for the coronavirus in America (including date of approval and link to FDA approval document):
The U.S. and global coronavirus testing regimes have recently come under intense scrutiny, after it became clear that the most common testing method, known as a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, has become completely unreliable in determining whether someone actually has the virus.
“The FDA’s Instructions for Use for the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel currently recommends a threshold of 40 cycles for a specimen to be considered positive,” which is well above the recommendations of scientists and experts evaluating testing accuracy.
EUAs are supposed to be granted only if a company can show that their test product is working to a high standard. But it is the FDA that is setting a poor testing standard that allows for companies to continue to produce poor data.
Company names in link..
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