Trump Solves Problem Caused by Obama-Era Regulation Which Was Stalling Ability to Test for Coronavir

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/04/793413/

Trump Solves Problem Caused by Obama-Era Regulation Which Was Stalling Ability to Test for Coronavirus

One of the issues that has been encountered with addressing the coronavirus has been a problem with testing.

Some on the left have attacked the initial lack of availability of tests for the virus, despite the fact that it’s a new virus, so it wouldn’t necessarily have test kits readily available.

But one of the reasons that testing on a state level has been stalled was actually because of an Food and Drug administration regulation instituted by Barack Obama.

The regulation demanded that state run laboratories could only use medical tests approved by the FDA.

Commissioner Stephen Hahn first addressed the testing problem on Saturday by issuing new guidance that would allow the state labs to conduct not-yet-approved coronavirus testing on patients in response to the public health emergency. In return for skirting the Obama-era regulation, laboratories must apply for an F.D.A. review of the new test, document the test’s accuracy and notify the F.D.A. of the test’s validity prior to F.D.A. completing the approval process.

The regulation had a reasonable purpose, but the bureaucrats who wrote it stupidly failed to foresee how their inflexibility would be a hindrance when fast flexible response was needed.

[libertybele]

https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/04/793413/

Trump Solves Problem Caused by Obama-Era Regulation Which Was Stalling Ability to Test for Coronavirus


The regulation had a reasonable purpose, but the bureaucrats who wrote it stupidly failed to foresee how their inflexibility would be a hindrance when fast flexible response was needed.

Good for President Trump!  Waiting for FDA probably would have taken years.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good for President Trump!  Waiting for FDA probably would have taken years.

The FDA has a bureaucratic reason it's so slow to approve new drugs.  If somebody dies because of a drug, it's headlines in all the major papers and high-dollar Jury awards.  If somebody kicks the bucket because a new drug is approved too late to save them, nobody knows. 

A bureaucracy will favor the visible victims over the invisible ones, every time.