Antibody Tests Go To Market Largely Unregulated, Warns House Subcommittee Chair

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The chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy warns that 'a wild west of unregulated' antibody tests are entering the market. These tests may be unreliable, and scientists aren't sure if having coronavirus antibodies means immunity.

A woman holds her hand out to have blood collected for a 15-minute test for coronavirus antibodies at a drive thru site in Hempstead, N.Y.A woman holds her hand out to have blood collected for a 15-minute test for coronavirus antibodies at a drive thru site in Hempstead, N.Y.Coronavirus antibody tests have garnered attention from officials as a potential tool to evaluate people's immunity to the illness.

"One is to basically get authorization from the FDA to sell them, and four companies have taken advantage of that. And then the other is not to get any authorization from the FDA and go ahead and sell them, and 107 have taken advantage of that." "Because of this kind of voluntary compliance type of regimen," he said,"there is absolutely no incentive for a junk test maker to actually produce their results to the FDA."

Even if test results are accurate, scientists still have many questions about what the presence of coronavirus antibodies mean.

 

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It doesn’t. Vaccines equal immunity.

'Right now, only use a test that has been authorized by the FDA'.

How are they getting into the market, who are the people distributing them? What led to this discovery?

Wait, what? That non sequitur 'narrative' implies it is somehow 'more dangerous' than OUR OWN GOVERNMENT 'not testing anyone' for coronavirus. You know, the status quo.

swineshine Translation: BOY did Elizabeth Holmes miss her window

What an uninteresting story from the usual culprit imposters. Somebody get paid for this? Easy work. It’s not even Fake News. PBC isn’t public at all. It’s private interest driven. Maybe even pirate driven radio. Why sabotage the small labs? COVID19

Yet its health care workers who have to give the test. I call BS. Another way to enforce further lockdowns etc.

They stopped that whacko hornyass preacher, can’t they stop this?

Better make sure those anti body tests are FDA approved and backed. Family got a test done that came back negative with nothing else listed. Nurse made statement the test wasnt FDA approved even though they paid 170 bucks for the test. GovernmentScamAlert

Why is that hand out of the window so creepy..

When Lin-Manuel Miranda does, 'Trump, The Musical', let's hope he included this song from Randy Rainbow:

And you don’t think the chair is making these statements for their political effect?

That's so not a comfort to people, what the fuck is wrong with the FDA approving these if they're not trustworthy? Are hospitals using the same stuff? Ugh

Oh, good grief!

Why don't they do something to regulate this wild west then? Crap tests are useless.

I bet we'll know in three months.

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