In an interview, CEO Li said the CDC routinely contracted with his company to make emergency testing chemicals. He said Tan’s lab at the China CDC had contacted him on Jan. 4 or 5 to make testing chemicals for the coronavirus based on CDC designs. He denied any personal relationship with Tan or any payments to the CDC.
The CDC did not have the authority to altogether prevent other scientists with competing agencies and companies from getting samples through back door routes and coming up with their own test recipes. But it tried to stymie such efforts and stop testing from being carried out. “It was absolutely abnormal,” said a CDC lab technician, who declined to be identified out of fear of retribution. “They were totally trying to make it harder for us to report any confirmed cases.”
“We’ve been entrusted by the national CDC to issue kits for you,” Zhao said, according to a screenshot of one of the group chats obtained by The Associated Press.But the kits from GeneoDx kept showing inconclusive results, the CDC technician told the AP, and eventually her superior ordered her to toss them aside. The kits from Huirui were also unreliable, and the only ones that worked consistently were from BioGerm, she said.
“No test protocol, no primers and probes, then of course there’s no way to confirm cases,” said another China CDC employee who declined to be identified for fear of retribution. “And then, all of a sudden, you tell all the CDCs: purchase from these companies, now go for it. Then – chaos and shortage. Valuable time wasted.”
RonColeman Every news organization that gave China the gift of propagandizing Americans should be shut down for good.
In Europe we didn’t line up, because the test kit shortages were no secret at all. Only those who were incredibly ill could have a test after many difficult phone calls. The shortages and organizational chaos were caused by incompetent national health institutes and politicians.
While they are behind all this mess
It took the US MONTHS to get testing running properly.
Who
Lmfao there are still entire regions of the US that do not have access to on-demand testing. Fuck outta here.
gut punch how gullible the WHO presented/presents - seriously WHO ?! don't know how to process - loss of life across globe and mounting - the grief - there's no explanation, none
ClioDunn Greed and Corruption only lead to the deaths of innocent people.
RonColeman Ummm. I think that this article is racist... Right?
RonColeman You people are the worst. Gaslighting the American people to own Trump. Most people who don’t rely on the AP and other MSM outlets for truth know China has been lying and suspicious since the beginning of this.
China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention gave test kit designs and distribution rights exclusively to three then-obscure Shanghai companies with which officials had personal ties, the reporting found. --- ...imagine that.
Trump said it, and you didnt believe him on purpose.
That's racist how dare you suggest the Chinese are corrupt
Corruption at its finest, or worst. Why even though I hate Trump and hold him responsible for what's happened here, I never trusted the CCP. They are a corrupt dictatorship. Good reporting here.
Proofs?.
Thats toxic ngl
Humans not 🐄 motherFudgers
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