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Re:US admits 'failing' on testing, says Fauci by chromatin on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:37PM (#22559441)
Yes, it is RNA virus so it is an extra step that is not necessary in many other PCR based clinical tests.
Re:US admits 'failing' on testing, says Fauci by heyitsguay on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:49PM (#22559599)
Sure, I meant for the non-technical aspects that the previous poster mentioned - chain of custody, sample integrity.
Re:US admits 'failing' on testing, says Fauci by jfarlow on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:16PM (#22560641)
So the process used in this testing is so common that research labs and any biochemistry lab in any college or high-school can run the test. But they probably shouldn't because they have no practice nor experience providing a diagnosis to a human - much less the strict statistical controls to interpret their results reliably.

A clinical lab that is used to running these kinds of (very common) protocols will see no difference in this protocol from others they commonly run (from a chain of custody, sample integrity, etc. perspective), just with a slight change to their reagents to specifically test for COVID. Their handling should be no different.