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The way that most industries solve this problem is through accreditation and branding. If Apple made a test that was endorsed by Consumer Reports, you can bet g
by ggreer 7y ago
The way that most industries solve this problem is through accreditation and branding. If Apple made a test that was endorsed by Consumer Reports, you can bet good money that it's effective.
The FDA & CDC shipped their own tests that were bogus. What's worse: They threatened researchers who invented their own tests that worked.[1] Thanks to the government's incompetence, testing was delayed by a month in the US.
1. From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...: 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.”