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Source: techcrunch.com ·
While a number of companies who currently offer at-home medical and health diagnostics had rushed to produce kits that would allow for self sample collection by people who passed a screening and believed they might have contracted the new coronavirus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its Emergency Use Authorization guidelines to […]
Justin - @MindsFiction
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Ryan Shea - @ryaneshea
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Eliezer Yudkowsky - @ESYudkowsky
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Jeremy Epstein - @jer979
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Daniel Ƀ - @csuwildcat
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Dan Held - @Dan-Held
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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- @_lordmax_
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Antonis Polemitis - @polemitis
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Nick Szabo⚡️ - @NickSzabo4
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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zooko - @zooko
6 months ago
Samples to be destroyed instead of tested for COVID-19 in order to comply with the new FDA ban on certain kinds of testing. https://t.co/WPWHqTqYgb https://t.co/cp9X8ka3TW
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Pierre Rochard - @pierre_rochard
6 months ago
RT @balajis: FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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Balaji S. Srinivasan - @balajis
6 months ago
FDA hard at work again...stopping decentralized at-home testing. Disgraceful. Increases risk of nosocomial infection from hospitals.
Governors should act to expand right-to-try now, to route around FDA by allowing state regulators to approve. Create sanctuary states for tests. https://t.co/oOSY3e648Y
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donotgogenlty
6 months ago
Stupid move. Every country should do mass in-home test kits but they won't because the numbers "won't be good for business".
Even though a lot of people are going to die.
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Pyro_The_Gyro
6 months ago
I never thought our politicians were this level of corrupt and cared so little for our lives..... I can't think of a single nation (Except for North Korea) that's treating their citizens like this. No testing, no mask, no money....were being told to work unless we show symptoms - and we can't take off work unless we have a positive test. We can't get a positive test until we take a test (which we can't get because their are no test).....
Our governments plan is to give companies money, give the citizens nothing, and let us die while they keep getting rich.
Does this boil anyone else's blood?
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HID_for_FBI
6 months ago
unfortunately for the better. imagine all of that being shipped all over the place? that sounds like a nightmare scenario in the making.
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Bustapepper1
6 months ago
So rather than self quarantine, and having a test done in your home to limit your chances of infecting people. You have to go into public potentially infecting more people. Sounds bassackwards to me this creating even more stress on the system. Good job guys!!!
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mdhardeman
6 months ago
I believe they were concerned with patients not getting proper personalized advice about interpreting the result and what it means and what it might not mean.
Also making sure that the swab samples are taken correctly and timely sent to the lab or refrigerated transport in some circumstances.
Also, some of the early tries at finger-prick antibody tests cropping up overseas aren’t sensitive enough and also return positive for some other non COVID-19 antibodies.
It could be quite dangerous if you are healthy and get a positive back but it was positive from a prior infection like SARS, etc, and think you’re now immune to COVID-19.
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Blueskaisunshine
6 months ago
But they literally just said in the WH press briefing that is happening now, they are going to release self tests kits. Can we just get some straight shooting here please, this is ridiculous.
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wolfiexiii
6 months ago
Maybe the deep state is real and the crazy people were right ... maybe not... it's crazy to watch tho these federal agencies do the exact opposite of what Trump tells them to.
Even the cash payments he called for have been turned into being lent a prebate on your tax return for next year...
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Epicmerker9
6 months ago
Y'all gon die in the states, holy shit and I thought my country was broken.
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Johnny09876
6 months ago
In other words, with in home testing, they might not be able to rip you off for as much money.
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reverber8
6 months ago
> False negative means you have an infected patient thinking they're exonerated and start to mingle and infect more people.
People are stupid. Everyone has been saying: even if you're not sick, or just got over it, STAY HOME. Someone has to beat some sense into these idiots before they kill us all.
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itsmy1stsmokebreak
6 months ago
Seems more likely hospitals will be needing all the testing kits available.
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WaitWhatOhNevermind
Helpful redditor 6 months ago
The most recent home test kit (Everlywell) had a update on their website saying they will donate all their tests to healthcare professionals “tomorrow” with no date (so who knows when it was posted) and no end date either.
I thing it will be a while before home tests are available.
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6 months ago
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