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I'm the director
of the COVID ICU. It's really important to know who's positive
in the community and to be able to test in a
widespread, aggressive fashion so we can really stop
the chain of transmission of the virus. Traditionally,
there's a lot of leeway when it comes
to federal regulations and hospital laboratories'
ability to set up
their in-house testing, but the thing about
the emergency declaration was that it made
the diagnostic innovation more difficult because now
it had to go through the FDA. So now, all of a sudden, any university laboratory
that has the experience and the know-how to set up
their own in-house testing now has to clear it
in order to make this work
of the COVID ICU. It's really important to know who's positive
in the community and to be able to test in a
widespread, aggressive fashion so we can really stop
the chain of transmission of the virus. Traditionally,
there's a lot of leeway when it comes
to federal regulations and hospital laboratories'
ability to set up
their in-house testing, but the thing about
the emergency declaration was that it made
the diagnostic innovation more difficult because now
it had to go through the FDA. So now, all of a sudden, any university laboratory
that has the experience and the know-how to set up
their own in-house testing now has to clear it
in order to make this work
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I'm the director
of the COVID ICU.
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It's really important to know
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who's positive
in the community
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and to be able to test in a
widespread, aggressive fashion
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so we can really stop
the chain of transmission
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of the virus.
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Traditionally,
there's a lot of leeway
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when it comes
to federal regulations
00:00:20.587 --> 00:00:22.998
and hospital laboratories'
ability
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to set up
their in-house testing,
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but the thing about
the emergency declaration
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was that it made
the diagnostic innovation
00:00:28.862 --> 00:00:31.998
more difficult because now
it had to go through the FDA.
00:00:32.996 --> 00:00:33.267
So now, all of a sudden,
00:00:33.003 --> 00:00:36.304
any university laboratory
that has the experience
00:00:36.337 --> 00:00:38.338
and the know-how to set up
their own in-house testing
00:00:38.371 --> 00:00:41.141
now has to clear it
in order to make this work.
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Movie Summary
An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
