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> FDA: Sure, just make sure to fill out these forms, be sure to send them to us by mail rather than email, and oh, make sure to test against the original SARS t

> FDA: Sure, just make sure to fill out these forms, be sure to send them to us by mail rather than email, and oh, make sure to test against the original SARS to make sure your test doesn't give a false SARS-CoV-19 reading if they patient just has that. > Laboratory: Uh, sure. Hey, CDC, can I have a sample of SARS to test against? I've been trying to stay on top of the testing saga, but it's been hard with all the daily changes. Do you have news links that describe this hypothetical exchange taking place? EDIT: in particular, the part around the FDA requiring testing against a sample of SARS.

Symmetry 7y ago
From here: >The officials at the FDA instructed him to test his test against the MERS and SARS viruses, which are also coronaviruses. It wasn’t a terrible idea, Greninger thought. Why not develop a test that catches all these deadly coronaviruses all at once? It did seem strange, however, that the FDA was asking for this in an emergency use application: by this point, COVID-19 cases had appeared in six states. (The FDA did not respond to a list of questions about the process.) >Still, Greninger complied. He called the CDC to inquire about getting some genetic material from a sample of SARS. The CDC, Greninger says, politely turned him down: the genetic material of the extremely contagious and deadly SARS virus was highly restricted. https://www.gq.com/story/inside-americas-coronavirus-testing-crisis https://www.gq.com/story/inside-americas-coronavirus-testing...