For just $40, the news release billed, you could prick your finger and in 15 minutes learn “with a specificity of 100%” whether you’d tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The “Corona Virus At-Home Test Kit” was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, its manufacturer trumpeted on Twitter.
While the FDA says it wants to develop home testing for COVID-19 and is “actively working with test developers” to that end, as of Sunday, the agency has approved no such kits. Such While local and federal authorities have charged numerous alleged grifters with peddling fake cures and inoculations for the coronavirus — including one small-time actor and bodybuilder whoon his public Instagram account with a 2.4 million followers — Yikon Genomics is no fly-by-night operation.
“All of that coincided with the L.A. city attorney contacting us and telling us we were advertising a false product, which just wasn’t the case,” he said.
There is one in China.....it’s possible