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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by buboard on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:31AM (#22636699)
no it isn't . there are lot of research labs that can do the test. the problem is safety, not the test itself.
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by jjoonathan on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:13AM (#22637254)
...and to dig one layer deeper, the actual problem is diffusing blame in cases where the test is wrong or someone wants to blame the lab for the fact that they caught the bug, not safety. That's what certifications are for (in this case), and that's the real reason why running without one is risky.
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by buboard on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#22637345)
risk tolerance changes in times of crisis though
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by LanceH on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:43AM (#22637423)
Statutes of limitation run past the crisis when the lawsuits phrased, "you should have known" come out.
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by Balgair on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:55AM (#22637989)
Yeah, imagine the janitor gets exposed to the virus, they then expose their entire family, those people then expose more, etc. You could easily kill someone.
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