{"id":27438,"date":"2020-04-23T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27438"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T03:00:28","slug":"cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27438","title":{"rendered":"CDC\u2019s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CDC_HO.jpg\" alt=\"CDC HO\" class=\"wp-image-27439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CDC_HO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CDC_HO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CDC_HO-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Barricades stand outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. As the novel coronavirus has spread in the U.S., the CDC is under increasing heat to defend a shaky rollout of crucial testing kits. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC\u2019s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times, federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests\u2019 creation led to contamination of the tests and their uninterpretable results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/04\/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/04\/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC\u2019s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed. Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CDC\u2019s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27440,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions\/27440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}