U.S. to Expand Coronavirus Testing After Delays in Surveillance Labs can modify problematic test kits to speed rollout About 40 public health labs can currently test for the virus using the modified version of the existing tests, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in Washington Thursday. A new test kit the government is developing could be sent to more than 90 public-health labs as soon as Monday, he said .... State and local labs have run into problems with the third of the sub-tests. Becker, from the lab association, said federal health officials were going to let them drop that part and use only two.
Labs can modify problematic test kits to speed rollout
About 40 public health labs can currently test for the virus using the modified version of the existing tests, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in Washington Thursday. A new test kit the government is developing could be sent to more than 90 public-health labs as soon as Monday, he said
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State and local labs have run into problems with the third of the sub-tests. Becker, from the lab association, said federal health officials were going to let them drop that part and use only two.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-02-27/coronavirus-test-kits-will-be-modified-to-speed-u-s-detection
文章解释了cdc 的test 为什么state 只有很少的labs能做。三个subtests 都要positive.结果有的local lab 有一个subtest 出不了positive 。于是算validation 没过，local lab 做不了。现在drop那个sunset test,同时有新kit 到local labs