In addition to learning of the early warning, reviewers determined the Respiratory Viruses Diagnostic Laboratory, run by a highly regarded scientist named Stephen Lindstrom, was beset with problems, including "process failures, a lack of appropriate recognized laboratory quality standards, and organizational problems related to the support and management of a laboratory supporting an outbreak response," the review said. Investigations Irregularities In COVID-19 Reporting Contract Award Process Raise New Questions The revelation comes from a CDC internal review, known as a "root-cause analysis," which the agency conducted to understand why an early coronavirus test didn't work properly and wound up costing scientists precious weeks in the early days of a pandemic. But an internal CDC review obtained by NPR confirms that lab officials decided to release the kit anyway. Under normal circumstances, that kind of result would stop a test in its tracks, half a dozen public and private lab officials told NPR. But NPR has learned the results of that final quality control test suggested something troubling - it said the kit could fail 33% of the time.
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The lab designed and built the diagnostic test in record time, and the little vials that contained necessary reagents to identify the virus were boxed up and ready to go. 6, a scientist in a small infectious disease lab on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Atlanta was putting a coronavirus test kit through its final paces.
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An internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention review obtained by NPR says the wrong quality control protocols were used.Ĭenters for Disease Control and Prevention via AP The flawed coronavirus test kits went out to public laboratories in February.