I couldn't seem to google this: What was the name of the ranking bureaucrat who originated the FDA/CDC directive prohibiting hospitals from using their own (quite good) in-house laboratories to conduct coronavirus testing? And who was their immediate boss?
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Was there a directive prohibiting it, or was it the lack of an EUA allowing it? There is kind of a tangle of regulations here that led to the situation involving lab-developed tests (LDTs) and declarations of emergency.
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Replying to @jasoncrawford @ESYudkowsky
Right. So regardless of the cause of the initial problems the regulations were basically tossed and now we have this.https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/19/fda-antibody-tests-coronavirus-review/ …
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The regulations weren’t “tossed”. I’ve been unable to get lateral flow tests after weeks of trying, and I bloody well know the false positive and negative rates are terrible. The claim that there’s some tidal wave of bad tests entering is bull.
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Replying to @perrymetzger @stevesi and
If the reporters did their jobs instead of just parroting what people tell them uncritically, they would have tried getting tests and checking if their literature was accurate in the unlikely case that they could get them.
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Have you tried actually acquiring some? I have. It's not actually terribly easy. I've been working hard at it for weeks and have failed.
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Replying to @perrymetzger @stevesi and
I mean, I recognize that if you go by the press there are horrible crap lateral flow tests coming out of everyone's ears and isn't it a shame that the FDA hasn't intervened; except so far as I can tell I can't get any because of the FDA, and I've been working hard at it.
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Who are you going to believe, the saintly press or your lying eyes?
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