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The CDC contaminated its first coronavirus tests, setting US back on testing
- vikramkr 6y agoThe incompetence of the cdc in the early days of the pandemic is truly stunning. I remember when the website on COVID used to say that "no evidence of community spread has been detected" when it later turned out that the reason no community spread was detected was because nobody was looking for it. People with covid symptoms but no known source of transmission weren't allowed to be tested, and then the CDC turned around and said that there was no evidence of community spread because there were no positive tests from people with unknown sources of transmission! And of course it turned out that it had been circulating for who knows how long and we now have an outbreak at this scale.