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Weren't the only working tests originally from WHO? If the US had used them, wouldn't we have had functional testing much sooner?
by ericb 7y ago
Weren't the only working tests originally from WHO? If the US had used them, wouldn't we have had functional testing much sooner?
- henearkr 7y agoFrom Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing): "The World Health Organization adopted the German recipe for manufacturing kits sent to low-income countries without the resources to develop their own. The German recipe was published on 17 January 2020; the protocol developed by the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was not available until 28 January, delaying available tests in the U.S." So, a German lab found the test, and WHO helped manufacturing it in low-income countries. But, as I said in another comment (only to be downvoted), the WHO is a sum of its participating countries. So everything the WHO finds is actually from some country's lab. That's just how WHO is made.
- fanatic2pope 7y agoThis whole thing is a distraction to try to minimize and deflect blowback from the US's own ineptitude.