Viable Coronavirus Test Kits Awaiting FDA Approval | MSNBC

A German laboratory has been ramping up production of a machine used for testing for the coronavirus. The devices are awaiting FDA approval before they can be used. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from the lab near Dusseldorf, Germany. CLARIFICATION: The testing kits referred to in this video are not self-testing kits and have not been sent to the U.S. as of March 12.

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Hundreds Of Coronavirus Self-Test Kits Sitting In U.S. Awaiting FDA Approval | MSNBC

98 comments

    1. @Schmelson Hefflefinger In a country with a FAKE President its no surprise you think everything is fake.

    2. @Schmelson Hefflefinger Axed me ? what does that mean ? Does it mean attack me with an axe or did you mean asked me ? In that case no one asked you either and I hope they didn’t axe you.

    3. @Better English I gotta say that you may be the most insipid, humorless leftist twit on You Tube. It is true….the left can’t meme and the left has no detectable sense of humor or ability to recognize sarcasm or irony. (Such as my response and your screen name.) Suggest you give up all social media. I should be laughing at you but nay…I am overpowered with incredulity.

    1. Let’s shut everything down and crash the world economy, then more people will die of hunger than the virus itself.
      There is a balance.

    1. @CaliforniaCheez
      U toothless hillbilly capitalists on food stamps crack me up 😀 yall need education and mental healthcare not guns and walls

    2. @Dawson Horst
      JESUS was a brown socialist Palestinian jew 😛 he wouldn’t like u racist pig farming ignorant maga fools

  1. Trump’s reasoning:

    No testing = no new cases = selfish, deadly Trump “victory” – It’s time the Orange Floater was flushed for good.

    1. @Fred A YES, IF America knew the TrumpVirus is targeting commy dimwits the country would would break-out in mass celebrations 🤣

    2. he was going to leave those people on that ship, for the same reason
      why should those cases ”count against us.”

    3. He just likes the number where they are now, he said 15 and getting better when this started in the states. He didn’t want the people off the cruise ship cause he only cares about numbers that make him look good. How blind (ignorant) can people be not to be able to see it, he really is the most embarrassing thing to have aver happen in this country. God bless us all, we really need it.

    4. @Emmanuel Ramírez But Trump* said Cocid-19 will probably just go away. He’s just naturally good at understanding these things, the doctors said so.

  2. The FDA should make the approval of the test kits the top priority.
    Who knows? Is big pharma blocking the FDA from prioritizing the approval?

    1. @Mae Gary BUT YOUR A PUTIN BOT Trump Virus has mutated and is coming for all commy Putin bots 🤣

    2. @sunrize601 And you do? 🤣 NO kidding he doesn’t and that’s why he started taking action while the dimwits were doing their clown show and showed no concern for a stupid virus. And the first thing the dimwits did was criticize what he did. How simple is that?

    3. It is the trump’s FDA and the trump’s courts and the trump’s monies. The trump is the only one that matters. He told the whole world that in one of his “me me me” interviews. People should have believed him. That is the ONLY words out of the trump mouth that we should believe!

    1. Michael Wuj After you as it would definitely do you good to see the reality in life. But, I guess trash doesn’t get picked up much, does it?

    2. @Muhammad Nimji You know nothing about facts and reality. You may even think you came from an ape🤣

    3. @Michael Wuj Now, now Michael, you shouldn’t be blowing your own trumpet as to where you came from! Hmmm, I guess being ignorant and clueless to the truth is pure bliss for you! Trump once said he loved the un-educated. Well! you must be gaga land!

    4. Michael Wuj do you want Americans to die to this virus because they are Democrats? How truly sad.

  3. Trump doesn’t want there to be tests, because he’s afraid the numbers of infections will go up. That’s the type of dangerously irresponsible sociopath we’re dealing with when it comes to Trump.

    1. @Wednesday’s Child Russian people good, communism very bad.
      Good information, thanks. I prefer to stay home when sick and haven’t seen a doctor in many years. It seems when I do go with someone else, many times I catch some bad bugs. At 63 and taking everything into consideration, the last place I would go is healthcare unless it was absolutely necessary. Best wishes.

    2. @Crystal Giddens Are you implying that the US is unable to make accurate test kits? Because this is something the rest of the world doesn’t seem to be having any trouble doing. Heck, China even has a test to see if you’ve gotten it sometime in the recent past but recovered on your own.

    3. @Crystal Giddens In the first part of March, South Korea was testing almost 4,000 person per million in population. During that same period, the US was testing 5 (five) persons per million of population. In other words, 5 million people would get 25 tests.

  4. My father went in to get checked, he thought he had the flu. He got checked for the flu and does not have it. The doctors said he may have coronavirus but could not test him because they said they had no tests!!! This was in Denver, Co.

    1. Im pretty sure i have corona virus but i dont have money to pay for the test. It’s about 3000 dollars. Probably been spreading it for weeks now too :/

  5. What is going on with the American heath system. The rest of the world has had a reliable test for weeks. The GOP is incompetent. VOTE BLUE.

    1. @Scurra Lets bring obama and his gang back they know what their doing,,,,,,,……………oh my, i could be wrong – they are still there and they are educated – 🤣🤣🤣 FDA = CIGS GOOD, BAD E-CIGS, 🤣🤣🤣

    2. @Dominique Hardie Trump doesn’t want higher numbers. He silenced the scientists and medical community. He is in charge, period.

    1. @Iceberg Rose Sorry but nothing in life is free. You know that. 😃 Is anyone in your country providing that care and not being paid? IF so, THAT would be truly “free”, OTHERWISE someone is paying for the “free” – and both our countries ALREADY have that in one form or another. Of course Not aborting babies would allow them to be born and have a good start TO LIFE. And if they were raised to follow the laws of GOD — JUST IMAGINE the wonderful world we would have. Instead, man knows everything and will only learn the very bitter lesson the hard way. But there is hope after that lesson is learned. Best wishes

    2. @Crystal Giddens Yes, for its greedy lawyers, corrupted politicians, for the Federal reserve bank, EPA- mafia, ETC

    1. Trump is not stopping this, the bureaucratic process is! Let me ask you this, since the virus is hurting the economy, we can conclude trump would want this! Many agencies in the American government are not influenced by the president! FBI, CIA, FDR, FDIC, FDA(especially) and DHS! The Senate has more authority over these agencies rather than the president, if the president had complete control over these agencies, we Americans would have more to fear! Our agencies are part of the checks and balances, only if martial law is declared do the agencies take orders directly from the president! Since the Senate is dominated by Democrats(chinese shills), you should be raging against them, you know the democratic states that have high poverty, high cost of living, poor healthcare programs, high abortion, high crime(including violent deaths) and foriegn ties to companies and governments!

  6. We’re trying to reinvent the wheel. It’s not a drug, it’s a proven test used worldwide. This is so stupid. 🤦🏻‍♂️

    1. @Pink Freud 30 years of pushing things overseas is not Donald Trump’s fault. Right now the Germans have the capacity to do the test. It’s called cooperation.

    2. @Wednesday’s Child So much BS. The ‘old tests had flaws’ was the test the CDC made. And yes it was flawed to the point of unusable – 40% accuracy. The CDC actually started distributing these test kits and that is when the Labs using them discovered they were faulty.
      The German made tests that was offered to the US weeks before the CDC tests became available was declined. Those test units had a 98% accuracy.

      South Korea fast tracked the development, accreditation and manufacture of their own test kits with a 95%+ accuracy rate. Not sure of their fastest result turn a-rounds, but their Drive Thru tests centers were doing a 6 hour result notification!

      There is no test in the US that is currently in use that takes around 1 hour for results back! Expect 24 hours+ to get results back. Which is much better than the first testing regime where the CDC required samples from positive tests ( which were classified as a ‘presumptive positive test’) to be sent to them for verification – which had taken up to 3 days.

    3. @gb nq the original test was made by the CHINESE and it took 3 days. That’s why the Chinese would say, oh that person was reinfected. They were not reinfected, the test failed. The S. Korea test takes DAYS TO DO and there’s no follow up, that is why CDC didn’t want to do the “drive” through test that takes 3 days. That old test made by the Chinese is the test used in Europe. The CDC had them send samples to them(with original Chinese test) so that they could check and recheck so that many people would not be missed as was in China and Italy. So the CDC decided to make a new rapid test, but there was a failure with one of the components, so they recalled it. This is a new test and it’s more accurate than the one that caused ITaly and China to miss so many cases. see the new accurate test in clip above.

    4. @Wednesday’s Child South Korea: 6 hour results from a new test distributed *February 7th* . It does appear however that it could be up to 3 days before results are back. Understandable I guess when they are now doing 15,000 + tests a day. The test itself doesn’t take days – will be the backlog causing delays. https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/south-korea-britain-aggressively-test-coronavirus

      The Chinese were not the first to create a test kit. All their positives were initially done in laboratories. After identifying that it was a new virus and then confirming sequencing of the virus, the Chinese eventually released the genome sequencing of the RNA of the virus on the 12th January.

      That sequence is what ANYONE anywhere can use to develop their own tests.
      The very first developed test was in Germany. https://www.dzif.de/en/researchers-develop-first-diagnostic-test-novel-coronavirus-china
      That is the test that the WHO sanctioned and was offered to the USA. The USA declined and instead got their CDC to make their own (failed) test kit.

      South Korea also developed, produced and distributed their own test kits within weeks.
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-04/south-korea-tests-hundreds-of-thousands-to-fight-virus-outbreak And yes, South Korea now export those kits to other countries.

  7. And how many more die, or become infected from now until the end of march!!?
    Very ridiculous decision to wait!!

    1. Guess what! You may never know, indeed even now you probably barely know, how many people will or have died from Novel Corona *because* your country only has 1/3 medical examiners (for legit autopsies) and 2/3 coroners (with zero qualifications in anything).
      See John Oliver’s “Death Investigations” episode.

      Very fking scary in the context of this outbreak in which even the assigned Chinese Medical Examiner was terrified, yet courageous enough, to do 2 of the handful of autopsies China was willing to risk exposing it’s staff to for the benefit of all our comparatively flailing Nations & the necessary sciences & research of the pathogen in the human body.

      Consequently, it is all our duties to give up our dead to autopsy, or demand that the Nation requires it in this exceptional situation. Not t mention, we should all probably begin to realise the science *must* come first AND it is possible specialised cremation may be warranted. We don’t know yet. We just do not know. Because China did not disclose this, yet the bodies of the dead were part of the big ruckus over censorship in recent weeks 😕

    1. @Alycia Cahn Smart you are. 👍 Jerry – as I’ve typed many times in those hilarious collusion times – who has orange hair, knows exactly why he voted for Trump.

    2. Is Biden any better? He turned our children into debt slaves and then said he had no empathy for them. Biden also lies pathologically, can’t talk, and thinks he is running for The US Senate.

  8. In layman’s term, TRUMP and his ADMINISTRATION while doing some private meetings with DRUG COMPANY EXECUTIVES and PRIVATE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS want to PROFIT out of this pandemic…

    That’s your president.

    1. Typical TDS response. Listen to more corrupt media outlets so they can continue to tell you how to feel and how to not use facts.

    2. Yeah and notice people from Ireland and England can still come to the USA but not people from the rest of Europe. Guess why? Trump has businesses and properties in those countries.

  9. UNBELIVABE!!! FATAL OVERSITE FOR THOUSANDS. I HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION SOLEY RESPONSIBLE!!!

    PEOPLE! GET LOUD!

    1. @Mae Gary
      There are many Trump supporters online pretending to be supporters of Bernie Sanders. They are encouraging Bernie supporters not to show up to vote in the general if Bernie is not the nominee.
      They are all over the Youtube comment section and elsewhere online.
      They viciously attacked Elizabeth Warren when she was campaigning and now they are going after Biden.
      Many pretend to be Bernie Sanders supporters, but they are actually working on behalf of Putin and Trump, and they adamantly refuse to say anything bad about Trump.
      I wonder how many of them there are inside the campaign.
      https://nypost.com/2020/03/06/elizabeth-warren-blasts-bernie-bros-for-doing-some-really-ugly-stuff/
      https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-blames-vicious-bernie-bros-on-russian-trolls
      https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/tech/russia-instagram-accounts-2020-election/index.html
      https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/security-contractor-erik-prince-recruited-spies-infiltrate-liberal-groups.html

    2. Trump turned down the WHO Coronavirus tests he was offered, preferring to wait for the ones made by a company he has a financial interest in.
      Remember how Pence kept referring to the privately owned labs that would be creating the tests, and saying the businesses’ names during his press conference on Friday?

  10. “Hundreds”
    Sorry, still not impressed…
    S. Korea, have been testing 10K people, per day… for weeks…

    1. Not only that he comes out and blatantly LIES ..OHHH IS ALL WORKING OUT GREAT!! WE HAVE TESTS FOR PEOPLE !! This guy is a nut !

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