Pandemic Timeline

Category: Tests

PCR test results create false alarm at a hospital

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center thought it had an outbreak of whooping cough.  Nearly 1,000 staff members were given a PCR test.  142 of them came back positive. Later, more definitive testing was done.  Not a single case of whooping cough was confirmed with the definitive test. Instead, it appears that the staff probably had ordinary respiratory…

CDC issues lab alert regarding RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2

The CDC will end the Emergency Use Authorization for the RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 on December 31, 2021.  This alert was issued to give labs time to find other tests to use. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays…

PCR tests

I am still working on setting up these links as events on the timeline.  But since some of you really need this information now, I’m making it available now.  There is going to be considerable shifting of information as I work on setting up the timeline.  All of the fully decorated links will be kept,…