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发帖数: 6339 | 1 The case was a teenager, in the same county where the first coronavirus case
had surfaced, who had a flu swab just a few days before but had no travel
history and no link to any known case.
The state laboratory, finally able to begin testing, confirmed the result
the next morning. The teenager, who had recovered from his illness, was
located and informed just after he entered his school building. He was sent
home and the school was later closed as a precaution.
Later that day, the investigators and Seattle health officials gathered with
representatives of the C.D.C. and the F.D.A. to discuss what happened. The
message from the federal government was blunt. “What they said on that
phone call very clearly was cease and desist to Helen Chu,” Dr. Lindquist
remembered. “Stop testing.”
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On a phone call the day after the C.D.C. and F.D.A. had told Dr. Chu to stop
, officials relented, but only partially, the researchers recalled. They
would allow the study’s laboratories to test cases and report the results
only in future samples. They would need to use a new consent form that
explicitly mentioned that results of the coronavirus tests might be shared
with the local health department.
They were not to test the thousands of samples that had already been
collected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html
斯塔里塔说，3月2日，华盛顿大学(University of Washington)西雅图流感研究所审查
委员会认定，在公共卫生紧急情况下，研究人员如果不进行检测并报告结果，是不道德
的。从那时起，她的实验室发现并报告了许多其他病例，所有病例均已得到确认。
在新样本到来的同时，斯塔里塔的实验室也开始追溯一些较老的、在冰柜里放了几周的
样本，发现了至少可以追溯到2月20日的病例——这是在公共卫生官员对这种病毒有概
念的七天前。
科学家们说，他们相信会找到证据，证明这种病毒在更早的时间里就感染了人，如果允
许他们进行检测，他们本可以更早地通知有关部门。
但在周一晚上，执行医疗保险规定的州监管机构介入，再次要求他们停止工作，直到完
成临床实验室的认证，这一过程可能需要数周时间。
海伦·朱说，现在回想起来，她能理解为什么过去几周有那些阻碍疫情研究的规定。“
这些保护措施的存在是有原因的，”她说。“你想保护实验对象。你想以合乎道德的方
式做事。”
她说，令人沮丧的是，在一场可能在华盛顿州暴发，并在许多其他地区蔓延的疫情中，
人们花了许多时间才得以突破繁文缛节去挽救生命。“我想那时候人们不知道，”她说
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发帖数: 6339 | 2 "strict protocols for who could be tested: people who had symptoms and had
traveled to a country where cases were endemic, or had been in close contact
with someone who had tested positive. "
https://time.com/5801790/coronavirus-testing-us/
该 protocols 可用于证明病毒来自"病例流行的国家" |
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