A US university has been forced to stop using Chinese testing kits after many of them where found to be contaminated, thus rendering them useless. As The South China Morning Post reports:
The University of Washington School of Medicine went to extraordinary lengths to airlift tens of thousands of Covid-19 testing kits from China during a nationwide shortage of sampling swabs and the liquid that preserves specimens for diagnostic testing.
In short: a Seattle importer used a business associate in China, who had a connection to a doctor in the province hardest hit by the disease, to secure testing kits from a Shanghai factory and then have them flown stateside as soon as possible on an Amazon-chartered plane. UW Medicine allocated US$125,000 to purchase the kits…
UW Medicine has decided to halt, at least temporarily, the use of the testing kits from Lingen Precision Medical Products, after a small percentage of the kits showed signs of contamination.
“I’ve just recommended everyone who has these things pause and not use them at all,” said Geoff Baird, the interim chair of the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine, who was part of the group that went to great lengths to secure the materials. “I can’t say I’m not disappointed.”
Buying ANYTHING from COVID-infected CHINA kinda makes you question the intelligence of those in the UW School of Medicine. These are supposed to be the “best and brightest”? Remember: If it says MADE IN CHINA, leave it on the shelves.
Left unsaid was the fact the “contamination” of these test kits was by COVID-19 virus – the very pathogen the kits were sold to us to detect!!
Do you know that as a fact or is that rampant speculation? If not speculation, cite your source.
It’s a fact Chin Ho; if you can’t accept it go back to China
You cant trust anyone or anything from china. When my brother died there 4 yrs ago the doctor held his body for ransom until my sister in law paid him 16k in cash. Disgusting thing to do to a widow of just a few hours.
U.S. in a position where Corona-virus testing(elements) to purchase from China should have been alerted in early Feb-March 2020. There was news that China sold or donated to Italy, Turkey, Poland and some other European countries Testing kits, face masks, PPE, were all found defective and unusable.
Do they think they can get a refund for their money? Good luck on that. Remember, Made in America?
Ok so why can’t wet build our own test kits. At this point it’s obvious that we can’t trust anything that comes from China. We need to get our manufacturing industry
back . If every country considers them persona non grata they will have a choice to either cleanup there act or have a totally failed economy.They don’t care about their people and they have the one of worse human rights records in the world.
WHAT PART OF DO NOT BUY FROM CHINA DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!