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CDC's coronavirus test kits still not ready to ship after some were
initially found to be faulty
From CNN’s Michael Nedelman
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet returned to
shipping coronavirus test kits to state labs after some tests were initially
found to be faulty, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said Friday during a call
with reporters.
The CDC wants to make sure that “every T is crossed before we put these
kits back out, so we’re taking a little extra time here,” Messonnier said.
She declined to give a specific timeline.
Why this matters: Earlier this week, the agency said some state labs had
been unable to validate the test. The CDC is now remanufacturing a reagent
used in the test that was yielding “indeterminate answers,” Messonnier
said.
"What we’re doing at CDC is reformulating those reagents,” she said, "and
we are moving quickly to get those back out to our labs” with state and
local partners.
Before it began shipping these kits, the CDC was the only lab in the United
States that could test for the virus. Experts say the new test kits open the
door to confirming cases earlier, thus being able to take swift action to
contain any further spread in the United States.
The CDC had previously announced plans to ship roughly 200 test kits to
domestic labs and another 200 to international labs. Each test kit can
perform 700 to 800 patient samples. |
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