Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by comicjk on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:08PM
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They should have been developing more than one test anyway. This reduces the risk of failure, and if you get multiple working tests, it allows some cross-checking to reduce false results. Failure to diversify is also mismanagement (though clearly more money can help you try more things).
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Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by Wowfunhappy on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:35PM
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I don't agree at all. The WHO had a working test. We just needed to produce as many of them as we possibly could, and send them to labs to set up and validate.
They needed every resource they had going to the confirmed working test. Even if the CDC was better funded, they still would have needed to spend every resource on that.