{"id":38746,"date":"2020-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/18\/fda-covid-19-test-could-give-inaccurate-results\/"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:10:06","slug":"fda-covid-19-test-could-give-inaccurate-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/18\/fda-covid-19-test-could-give-inaccurate-results\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA: COVID-19 Test Could Give Inaccurate Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Agency issues alert about Thermo Fisher&#8217;s TaqPath genetic test<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Aug. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A widely used COVID-19 test could produce inaccurate results due to issues with the equipment and software used to run the test, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency issued the alert about Thermo Fisher&#8217;s TaqPath genetic test.<\/p>\n<p>The company is working with the FDA &#8220;to make sure that laboratory personnel understand the need for strict adherence to the instructions for use,&#8221; according to a spokeswoman for Thermo Fisher.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA did not reveal how many inaccurate test results there have been.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/letters-health-care-providers\/risk-inaccurate-results-thermo-fisher-scientific-taqpath-covid-19-combo-kit-letter-clinical\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency issues alert about Thermo Fisher&#8217;s TaqPath genetic test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-38746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}