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| F.D.A. Halts Coronavirus Testing Program Backed by Bill Gates |
| 2020-05-16 |
| [NYTimes] An innovative coronavirus testing program in the Seattle area — promoted by the billionaire Bill Gates and local public health officials as a way of conducting wider surveillance on the invisible spread of the virus — has been ordered by the federal government to stop its work pending additional reviews. The program involved sending home test kits to both healthy and sick people in the hope of conducting the kind of widespread monitoring that could help communities safely reopen from lockdowns. Researchers and public health authorities already had tested thousands of samples, finding dozens of previously undetected cases. Researchers studying the spread of Covid-19 have some answers. But the program, a partnership between research groups and the Seattle and King County public health department that had been operating under authorization from the state, was notified this week that it now needs approval directly from the federal government. Officials with the Food and Drug Administration told the partnership to cease its testing and reporting until the agency grants further approval. Related: Bill Gates: 2020-05-15 'The strange bedfellows of Professor Panic Bill Gates: 2020-05-10 "We Sent Them Samples Of A Goat, A Papaya & A Pheasant": Tanzanian President Catches WHO In Epic Lie Bill Gates: 2020-05-10 Model: Universal Mask-Wearing Would Do More To Reduce Infection Than Indefinite Lockdowns Would Related: Food and Drug Administration: 2020-05-10 Herd Immunity, or Big 2nd Wave? Israel Antibody Testing Hopes to Find Out Food and Drug Administration: 2020-05-08 Coronaplague roundup: FDA pulls approval for dozens of Chinese mask makers, CA $1billion order spiked Food and Drug Administration: 2020-05-01 Coronavirus antibody test with 99% success rate approved for use in Europe |
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