Joel B. Pollak 13 Mar 2020
Dr. Nicole Saphier told Breitbart News Daily on Friday morning that the reason the U.S. had rejected coronavirus test kits from abroad is that they had a 48% false negative rate, meaning sick people would believe, falsely, they were fine.
Saphier is a former microbiologist who appears frequently on Fox News as a contributor. She is also the author of Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis.
Saphier generally praised the U.S. response to coronavirus, but said that “the one thing†that was “unacceptable†was the lack of testing kits, noting that the private sector had not been harnessed.
She noted that President Donald Trump had acted early by imposing a travel ban on China. “That was the right thing to do,†she said.
“What didn’t happen was the mass testing of people in the United States,†she added. “And a part of this was the United States rejected some of these testing kits from elsewhere, and that is because the United States placed high standards on what we use in our health care system. Things have to go through FDA approval.
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