U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new policy will enable states to accelerate screening for new coronary pneumonia

China News Service, March 1. According to "Central News Agency" report, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on February 29 that it will allow some laboratories to immediately use its self-developed testing tool that can effectively and quickly screen for new crown pneumonia. .

According to reports, this policy is paving the way for immediate regional testing by state public health laboratories, and screening results may be available within hours. Public health officials say this is critical to responding quickly to the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

"According to this policy, we expect that certain laboratories that develop effective detection of new crown virus will begin to be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration review," said Su Lun, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Medical Devices and Radiological Health. Adopt it now. "

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on the 29th that New York State will immediately begin using in-state testing kits. The New York State Department of Health submitted an urgent application to the US Food and Drug Administration on the 28th for permission to use it.

"We have just received information and the FDA has approved our test. New York State will begin testing at the Wadsworth Lab immediately," Gummo said in a statement. The Wadsworth experiment The room is located in Albany, New York.

The New York Public Health Laboratory was the first in the United States to seek emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to use its own test suite. Health officials previously said that the federal government's test suite was flawed, preventing them from quickly making a diagnosis in New York City, the most populous city in the United States.

No cases have been detected in New York City, but Mayor Bai Sihao and health officials have said the outbreak is likely to spread to New York City.

At the same time, the US Centers for Disease Control is working hard to create new credible test sets. The US Secretary of Health and Human Services Isa said the newly manufactured CDC test kit could be delivered to 93 public health laboratories as soon as March 2.