Mammoth Biosciences has developed a CRISPR-based COVID19 test, which can be conducted in 30 min, and is trying to expand to being available at the point of care. https://mammoth.bio/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Mammoth-Biosciences-A-protocol-for-rapid-detection-of-SARS-CoV-2-using-CRISPR-diagnostics-DETECTR.pdf …
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If the blocker is simply someone willing to take on risk I will volunteer to go to jail in order to test people. No joke.
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That’s commendable, but not as useful as understanding what the enforcement landscape is like. If you test one person and go to jail immediately, you can’t help any more people. In a situation where medical personnel are already scarce, that’s bad.
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This is exactly what happened to the Washington flu research group who found community spread back in February. FDA cease & desisted them.
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It shouldn't be a problem any longer, though. The FDA has granted blanket approval to any lab to develop and use their own tests. Any lab that already has the capability to do genetic testing routinely could start testing for CV19 within days. And many have.
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Related q: would the same/equally-bad regulations apply to tests done for epidemiological purposes? If someone was running tests just towards knowing the infection stats (and hiding results from Dr.s/patients, perverse as that seems) would they face FDA/CDC retribution?
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If these became court cases, would they go through a jury?
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Probably depends on what you did with the results. If you did it as research and didn’t use results to make any medical or public health decisions (except to make sure any positive results got tested with an approved test), you’d basically be doing this: https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1237555003352469509?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1237555003352469509 …
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