From Beth Mole's 4-20-20 Ars Technica article entitled "CDC’s Failed Coronavirus Tests Were Tainted with Coronavirus, Feds Confirm":
As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early
February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials
have confirmed.
The contamination made the tests uninterpretable,
and—because testing is crucial for containment efforts—it lost the
country invaluable time to get ahead of the advancing pandemic.
The
CDC had been vague about what went wrong with the tests, initially only
saying that “a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents” had
led to the failure. Subsequent reporting suggested that the problem was
with a negative control—that is, a part of the test meant to be free of
any trace of the coronavirus as a critical reference for confirming
that the test was working properly overall.
Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times,
federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of
three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination of
the tests and their uninterpretable results.
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