A delay by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in quickly making coronavirus test kits available was the result of 'a glaring scientific breakdown' at the CDC's central lab, The Washington Post reported.
A delay by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in quickly making coronavirus test kits available was the result of "a glaring scientific breakdown" at the CDA central lab, The Washington Post reported.
James Le Duc, a virologist and former CDC officer who now heads the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, told The Post that the situation was "really a terrible black mark on the CDC, and the impact was devastating to the country."Tami Chappell | Reuters And while the part of the test that was compromised was not critical to detecting the coronavirus, CDC officials took more than a month to remove it from the test kits, according to The Post.
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