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The frustration
was just boiling over, and I remember going
to these meetings with our clinical lab director, and she'sliterally on the
phone with the FDA and the CDC like, "You need to help us!
You need to help us." After almost a month of labs across the country
being unable to test, the Trump Administration
finally made a decision it could have made
weeks earlier. On February 26th, the FDA and the CDC
laid out the strategy, and that was that we would
be able to get up and running by using the original test kit, but by throwing out
the N3 component. Overnight with, you know, with some crossing out
of lines on some paper, the same test kits
that had been shipped out to the state public health
labs were functional
was just boiling over, and I remember going
to these meetings with our clinical lab director, and she'sliterally on the
phone with the FDA and the CDC like, "You need to help us!
You need to help us." After almost a month of labs across the country
being unable to test, the Trump Administration
finally made a decision it could have made
weeks earlier. On February 26th, the FDA and the CDC
laid out the strategy, and that was that we would
be able to get up and running by using the original test kit, but by throwing out
the N3 component. Overnight with, you know, with some crossing out
of lines on some paper, the same test kits
that had been shipped out to the state public health
labs were functional
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The frustration
was just boiling over,
00:00:04.404 --> 00:00:06.039
and I remember going
to these meetings
00:00:06.072 --> 00:00:07.907
with our clinical lab director,
00:00:07.094 --> 00:00:10.877
and she'sliterally on the
phone with the FDA and the CDC
00:00:10.909 --> 00:00:13.679
like, "You need to help us!
You need to help us."
00:00:13.712 --> 00:00:15.915
After almost a month
00:00:15.949 --> 00:00:18.851
of labs across the country
being unable to test,
00:00:18.884 --> 00:00:21.387
the Trump Administration
finally made a decision
00:00:21.042 --> 00:00:23.857
it could have made
weeks earlier.
00:00:23.889 --> 00:00:26.625
On February 26th,
00:00:26.659 --> 00:00:30.564
the FDA and the CDC
laid out the strategy,
00:00:30.596 --> 00:00:33.996
and that was that we would
be able to get up and running
00:00:33.998 --> 00:00:35.668
by using the original test kit,
00:00:35.701 --> 00:00:39.939
but by throwing out
the N3 component.
00:00:39.973 --> 00:00:41.608
Overnight with, you know,
00:00:41.641 --> 00:00:43.677
with some crossing out
of lines on some paper,
00:00:43.071 --> 00:00:46.048
the same test kits
that had been shipped out
00:00:46.512 --> 00:00:50.784
to the state public health
labs were functional.
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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.
