Anonymous ID: cef1d7 Dec. 21, 2023, 5:09 p.m. No.20112174   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2195

Any other Anons think it's interesting that we're hearing about Epstein clients that were Presidents exactly 6 years after EO 13818-Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption?

Anonymous ID: cef1d7 Dec. 21, 2023, 5:34 p.m. No.20112340   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2344

COVID test supplier received billions in pandemic contracts after submitting edited results

 

By Patti Sonntag Global News

Posted December 21, 2023 5:00 am

Updated December 21, 2023 3:08 pm

 

A rapid test importer landed an estimated$2 billion in federal contractsin 2021 and 2022, despite giving regulators incomplete data about its product’s accuracy, Global News has found.

 

A year-long investigation into federal procurement revealed that BTNX, a small rapid test supplier based outside Toronto, deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada. That evaluation showed how well the company’s test detected COVID-19.

 

The deletions made BTNX’s test appear more reliable and sensitive than it really was, according to researchers Global News consulted.

 

Read more here about how Global News’ investigation unfolded.

 

The device could detect the virus in users who were the most contagious, but results from leading regulators’ evaluation programs indicate BTNX’s test was much less dependable in all other cases.

 

This apparent flaw meant the test kit was more likely to produce false-negative results which, many experts said, put Canadian lives at risk.

 

“I think it’s outrageous that the public wasn’t as aware of the discrepancies in the testings that had real-life implications,” said Jillian Kohler, director of the University of Toronto’s World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector.

 

Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada bought 404 million tests from BTNX, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic.

 

Now, as Canadians gather for the holidays amid reports of an uptick of COVID-19 infections and the emergence of new variants, many may still have the original, lime-green kits with the code COV-19C25 in their homes. Some pharmacies, schools and daycares still distribute them.

 

Before the pandemic, BTNX was based in a business plaza in Markham, Ontario. One of its growing revenue streams involved harm reduction — selling kits people use to test illicit drugs for deadly substances like fentanyl.

 

Despite the company’s lack of specific expertise with infectious diseases, this underdog became the nation’s foremost rapid test supplier during the pandemic. The federal government awarded BTNX a series of 15 contracts that became the largest COVID-era supply deal.

 

These products,imported from China, became the passports Canadians depended on as health ministries ended lockdowns and social distancing restrictions. People used the tests to screen themselves before returning to workplaces, sending their kids off to school, meeting with friends, and visiting loved ones in long-term care facilities.

 

BTNX told Global News that it did not offer Health Canada or Canadians inaccurate information about its test.

 

”We have at all times operated with integrity and transparency, and have manufactured and distributed our COVID-19 rapid tests in accordance with Health Canada and international standards,” BTNX’s lawyer, Richard Dearden of Gowling WLP (Canada), wrote on the company’s behalf.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/10183219/covid-test-supplier-canada/