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4. ITALY. On March 18 a small town in Italy
(3300 people) announced that they have zero cases of virus now, after having tested
everybody at the end of February and imposed quarantine measures!
Germany. You wonder why Germany has lots of fewer deaths caused by the virus? Apparently as soon as the virus genome was identified (early January) by the Chinese health authorities, a private German doctor and his private company started to manufacture a new test, which they have produced more than 1.5 millions by end of February, which allowed Germany to test far better than a lot of other countries.
In USA, the CDC (center for Disease control) messed
up the design and production of tests (see further below), and only after February 28 the FDA finally
authorized the production of private tests other than the CDC ones… 6 weeks
lost. An inquiry into CDC (and FDA?) is on going…
From mid-January until Feb. 28,
fewer than 4,000 tests from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were used, out of more 160,000
produced.
A US private company
developed a test based on the German test (affiliate), but never got the
authorization of the FDA. Some public State health laboratories also found out
what was wrong with the CDC tests but could not fabricate/use them, as no
approval received from the FDA.
It has been long-standing practice for CDC scientists
in emergencies to develop the first diagnostic tests, in part because CDC has
access to samples of the virus before others. Later, private companies that win
FDA authorization can scale up efforts to meet demand.
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