An internal review sheds new light on what went wrong with the first COVID tests distributed by the CDC during the early days of the pandemic. Learn more:
Dec. 17, 2021 -- An internal review sheds new light on what went wrong with the first COVID tests distributed by the CDC during the early days of the pandemic.
The test kits were designed to detect the virus with primers, which bind to and copy targeted sequences, and with probes that emit a fluorescent signal when copies are made,The probes and primers were not supposed to touch or bind to each other, but that happened sometimes in the faulty kits. And this created the false positives, The New York Times said.
“Since the rollout of the initial Covid-19 test, C.D.C. has implemented corrective measures and remains dedicated to the highest quality laboratory science and safety,” the CDC said in a statement.“It’s something that should have been caught in the design phase,” Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, told The New York Times. “That’s one thing that you check for.
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