Some states raising doubts about federal tests sent to nursing homes, citing shaky reliability\n

Dr. Jen Ashton breaks down the latest information on test availability.View Press/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE

. While other diagnostic tests for COVID-19 like PCR tests look for genetic material from the virus, antigen tests look for molecules on the surface of the virus, diagnosing an active coronavirus infection faster than molecular tests. “We are very disappointed by the letter received today from the [Adm. Brett] Girior,” the federal health official who oversaw the distribution of testing equipment to nursing homes, said Dr. Ihsan Azzam, Nevada’s chief medical officer in a statement to health care providers.

“These are expected and appropriate, especially for screening tests when used in populations with a low prevalence of infection,” Giroir told reporters. “Bottom line, the recommendations in the Nevada letter are unjustified and not scientifically valid.”Nevada has not been alone in sounding alarms about the federal testing kits.

“Since June, Connecticut set up a state-funded comprehensive nursing home testing program for residents and staff that uses PCR tests with locally based labs who can guarantee timely processing of samples for quicker results with no backlog,” Harris said. Five states including California and Arizona told ABC News that they do not have reports of widespread problems with false results from antigen testing machines.When the Food and Drug Administration authorized the rapid testing equipment from BD and Quidel, it acknowledged there was a, alerting them of an increased risk of false positive results from the BD testing kits. The agency recommended confirming the initial result with an alternate type of authorized test.

A spokesperson for Quidel told ABC News in a statement that"complaints of discordance are extremely rare.""

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Would those be democratic states? The ones that ordered covid patients into the vulnerable nursing homes? Is this now a blame shift? Governors murdered thousands and now they wish to shif the blame.

No!!!!!!!!!

Oh, this should not happen. The results must be accurate. Due to false results, healthy persons need to take unnecessary medication.

Trump's chaos, corruption, and economic instability everywhere, while he dances and plays mini dictator.

They are now the Official Death Panels! 🤷🏾‍♀️

I bet old Cuomo wasn't too concerned was he? NYGovCuomo

What

Baron only has two hands to make thousands of ventilators. Give the kid a break.

Trump doesn’t care.

good

Put a failed business man in charge of the Government, what did you expect?

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