{"id":90564,"date":"2020-03-13T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90564"},"modified":"2020-03-14T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T12:11:56","slug":"stat-news-coronavirus-testing-is-starting-to-get-better-but-it-has-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90564","title":{"rendered":"(Stat News) Coronavirus testing is starting to get better \u2014 but it has a long way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roche case offers some encouragement: Brown said that the company started working on its new test last month, and finished the work in six weeks. Roche asked the FDA for emergency clearance earlier this week, and received it around the stroke of midnight Friday. As he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/13\/national-emergency-coronavirus\/\">announced a national emergency<\/a> Friday afternoon, President Trump promised that testing capacity would eventually reach 5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Testing serves two purposes. It can tell whether an individual person is sick. But it also acts as our way of knowing how bad the epidemic is, and where it is worst. Other types of technologies might help with the second part, if not the first. Blood tests that look to see if people have antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 \u2013when they become available \u2014 can tell us how many people have had Covid-19. Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies could also play a role in monitoring it.<\/p>\n<p>Through all this, the CDC and other health officials now need to follow an old maxim: Don\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.<\/p>\n<p>Regulatory standards are important, and if the U.S. had organized its response sooner, getting the developers of diagnostic tests and major labs ready, there would have been time for an orderly process. But this is an emergency. And there is a need for speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/13\/coronavirus-testing-long-way-to-go\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roche is going to ship out 400k <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#covid19<\/a> test kits out of NJ this weekend to labs CDC has given them hopefully end of next week we&#8217;ll have a better visibility on things <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QRMEDnKuny\">https:\/\/t.co\/QRMEDnKuny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Pham (@peterpham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterpham\/status\/1238622203790286853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roche case offers some encouragement: Brown said that the company started working on its new test last month, and finished the work in six weeks. Roche asked the FDA for emergency clearance earlier this week, and received it around<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90564\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,104,95,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90567,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90564\/revisions\/90567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}