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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca... by Reelin on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:22PM (#22435379)
If you're using an officially published primer sequence? Possible (due to supplier or user error), but _highly_ unlikely. We're pretty good at molecular biology at this point.
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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca... by prepend on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:55PM (#22435745)
Isn’t the idea of review to confirm that “highly unlikely?”

Without review, unscrupulous (or incompetent) vendors could make a test with unknown usefulness.

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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca... by Reelin on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:20PM (#22436059)
I'm not talking about making an entire test kit, but rather labs with existing RT-PCR abilities (ie the vast majority of molecular biology labs) having the appropriate primers and probes synthesized by the standard (non-clinical) vendors that they order from every day.
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