umm anons… this key data point, which was buried deep in Sat.'s edition the failing NYT on Sat:
Initial CDC Tests Manufactured in their HQ Atlanta labs in were contaminated w/ the Corona Virus, (article/key data not documented anywhere I can find in qresear.ch):
"Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work properly to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
“C.D.C. did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol,” Stephanie Caccomo, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., said in a statement on Saturday.
Problems ranged from researchers entering and exiting the coronavirus laboratories without changing their coats, to test ingredients being assembled in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples, the F.D.A. said. Those practices made the tests sent to public health labs unusable because they were contaminated with the coronavirus,"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/coronavirus-live-news.html
https://archive.ph/xy9NR – NYT article in the archive to avoid the paywall.
*Note that the FDA says theses CDC CV contaminated tests were distributed to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs.
*Note how the FDA provides some layer of cover (as best as they can) for the CDC.
Reminder : same thing happend in the UK, exact same M.O., but different manufacturer – (article below is in qresear.ch)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-tests-uk-contaminated-covid-19
Observation – could this have been one of the initial vehicles/means by which [they] have spread COVID-19, vis e vie the TEST SWABS themselves, planting the pathogen in the early test taking population? These CV contaminated tests were distributed.
Note how POTUS was drawing our focus to the test swabs themselves (ad nauseum) during Sun's CV presser.
POTUS made it a point that he will be using the powers of the Defense Production Act for the large-scale manufacturing of 'swabs'. He's sending a message to these companies that he will not tolerate any manufacturing 'mistakes' or quality deviations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-swabs-reported-shortages-195721
According to Science Mag:
"CDC Lab Contamination Delayed Coronavirus Testing
Assembling the first COVID-19 test kits in the same room as coronavirus material, along with other practices that didn’t follow protocol, made the tests unusable, officials say.
Problems with the tests were reported not long after the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, was announced in late January in the US. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent Timothy Stenzel, the agency’s director of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the CDC headquarters in Atlanta to identify the source of the problem.
…Stenzel found that no one was in charge of the entire test-manufacturing process, and those working on the tests didn’t have much expertise in commercial manufacturing. He also observed several opportunities for contamination, including test kit assembly in the same room with coronavirus material.
The CDC made its test in a lab, rather than in its manufacturing facilities, an FDA spokesperson tells CNN. “CDC did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.”
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/cdc-lab-contamination-delayed-coronavirus-testing-67438
*Note –those working on the tests @ CDC HQ didn’t have expertise in commercial manufacturing & were assembling the tests in the same lab they were studying the virus in."