So, I really was not understanding what the delay was, either, but if you watch the CDC press conference with Trump from Friday, they make a distinction between ‘clinical’ lab testing and ‘public health’ lab testing.
So, it seems the ‘public health’ labs are mired in some byzantine system of rules, where the local department defers to the state, and the state defers to the federal agencies.
The ‘clinical’ labs are mostly for-profit and follow a different procurement process for obtaining the tests, and I believe they are different tests, as well.
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So, I really was not understanding what the delay was, either, but if you watch the CDC press conference with Trump from Friday, they make a distinction between ‘clinical’ lab testing and ‘public health’ lab testing.
So, it seems the ‘public health’ labs are mired in some byzantine system of rules, where the local department defers to the state, and the state defers to the federal agencies.
The ‘clinical’ labs are mostly for-profit and follow a different procurement process for obtaining the tests, and I believe they are different tests, as well.
It is a mess.