FDA shuts down at-home tests for COVID-19
American Thinker,
by
Howard Richman
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
3/24/2020 3:42:00 PM
Proving again that they are part of the problem, not part of the solution, the FDA on March 21 shut down the at-home tests for COVID-19 that had been developed by several companies. (A few days ago, they inhibited the use of the successful drug chloroquine for use against COVID-19.) The website techcrunch.com tells the story of the FDA’s shutdown of at-home testing:
While a number of companies who currently offer at-home medical and health diagnostics had rushed to produce kits that would allow for self sample collection by people who passed a screening and believed they might have contracted the new coronavirus,
A government agency trying to protect their control (i.e. power) over these things. Self-preservation on display.
I also predict that large percentages of the funds being pushed will end up back-filling many states and cities to help them pay public employee paychecks and pensions.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
justavoter 3/24/2020 4:01:33 PM (No. 356621)
The at home testing companies must not be contributors of the correct political party. This is also an example of how the deep State is holding its thumb on the scales of success for the President.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JL80863 3/24/2020 4:04:56 PM (No. 356624)
I guy I know taught pharmacology at a famous medical school. He told me that if aspirin were proposed for approval today it would be turned down because it causes gastric bleeding in some people. To address OP's question; congress put a lot of federal agencies on autopilot because they don't want to make hard decisions. That would make the political "game" too difficult. Don't want to ruffle feathers and not get reelected.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2020 4:06:55 PM (No. 356625)
I suspect that the FDA head will get a phone call today from President Trump. Trump and Birx today were both saying that this was "going to be available".
IMO, I question whether most people will take the sample correctly. I have had a swab used a couple of times to open up severely swollen sinus outlets, some medicine dabbed directly on the "sweet spot". An 8" swab is put up your nose inward and upwards, you think it is going to hit the back of your skull, and "how can it keep going in like that without hitting anything?" is running through your mind as the doc pushes it in. Then it touches, WAY back there in the sinus area. A LOT more air in there than you think.
I am skeptical that the average person will put it all the way in, which is what is reported to be necessary to gather a proper sample. Improper sample.....probably negates the value of the test.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msts 3/24/2020 4:33:59 PM (No. 356637)
The only way to reduce the level of panic is to show that its not as serious (or as serious!) as the flu. The only metric that needs to be considered is mortality rate. The amount of people who die proportional to how many get it. If confirmed cases stay low and the amount of people dying stay within a range, the Mortality Rate stays high or climbs. If there is positive testing thats shows infected individuals who are not serious and not dying, the Mortality Rate shrinks. I think that there is a movement in the executive agencies that wants to stifle testing so they can prolong this. I hope DJT sees through it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/24/2020 4:39:22 PM (No. 356640)
Disband the FDA. They've outlived their usefulness.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 5:08:39 PM (No. 356652)
Re #4, yes. The nasal swabbing is said by even medical personnel to be very uncomfortable. The average person would not go that far with a swab and the test would be worthless.
Labcorp has notified us that the tests must be done by medical personnel and then sent to their facilities. No exceptions.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 5:15:26 PM (No. 356657)
Question: Do you have any idea who Howard Richman is?
I don’t. And I cannot find a bio.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2020 5:39:32 PM (No. 356684)
Interesting question, #8. I do not find that posted article on the current American Thinker main web page for March 24, but the link works and appears to be legitimately on AmThinker site. And he has perhaps three dozen other AmThinker articles to his credit.
But I find a Howard Richman who writes home schooling books, and a lawyer for medical mal in NYC area.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2020 5:41:10 PM (No. 356690)
Clarification to #9, I think the two - homeschool book author and lawyer are different people, wasn't clear on that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2020 6:35:30 PM (No. 356756)
I get the feeling that the FDA is going to undergo a massive business process reengineering once this virus is under control. It has introduced more problems than solutions.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/24/2020 10:11:36 PM (No. 356905)
The FDA needs to be squashed like the swamp bugs they are. How many of them are Obama holdovers? They are indeed standing in the way of fighting this virus, and they need to be exposed for the America hating agency they have apparently become.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 11:05:19 PM (No. 356926)
This is one time that I’m with the FDA. Testing is too serious for Amateur Night. Too many would fudge on the very uncomfortable nasal swabbing figuring no one was looking. No thank you...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 11:06:45 PM (No. 356928)
PS. I also pay no attention to the writings of a guy like this who does not give his credentials.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 2:42:00 AM (No. 357022)
Dr. Birx today in the press conference said that they were still working on a test that could use a swab from the "front of the nose", and that the current tests require a trained person to take the swab....I forget the exact term she used, but her opposite was "the front of the nose" which a patient can do themselves.
Seems to verify that most of us are unlikely to get the swab far enough back by ourselves to get the proper
deep swab sample. Having had it done to me a couple of times..., I doubt I could do it, even with a good idea what needs to be done.
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