The CDC shipped out defective, “likely” contaminated COVID-19 tests in February, a federal internal review has concluded. The report said “CDC scientists likely used a component in the kits that was ‘contaminated.’”
“These tests are so sensitive that this contamination could have been caused by a single person walking through an area with positive control material and then later entering an area where tests reagents were being manipulated,” ABC 33/40 News said the general counsel wrote in the review.
SOURCES:
The Hill June 20, 2020
ABC 33/40 News June 19, 2020