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Coronavirus

Trump Administration Should Immediately Launch an Operation Warp Speed for COVID-19 Testing

It would be the best thing to do with the $22.4 billion Congress allocated for COVID-19 testing

Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2020 2:46 PM

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Coronavirus

The FDA Finally Approves a Real At-Home COVID-19 Test

Way late, but better than never.

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2020 3:05 PM

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Coronavirus

'CASES, CASES, CASES … Cases are up because TESTING is way up,' Tweets the President

COVID-19 Cases are increasing faster than is testing, and that's not "fake news."

Ronald Bailey | 10.26.2020 5:10 PM

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Science

Rapid Home COVID-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They're Illegal.

Delivering rapid at-home testing kits to 330 million Americans is "something we can actually do at warp speed."

Ronald Bailey | 10.20.2020 6:00 AM

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Coronavirus

The FDA Has Been Way Too Slow on At-Home COVID-19 Testing

With antigen testing, the U.S. could have been well on its way toward crushing the pandemic by now.

Ronald Bailey | 8.4.2020 4:14 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Infections in U.S. Are About 10 Times Greater Than Reported Cases, Says Study

About 40 percent of infected persons show no symptoms but may still transmit disease.

Ronald Bailey | 7.22.2020 4:45 PM

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Coronavirus

Trump Is Wrong: Spreading Epidemic Is Responsible for Most of the Rise in COVID-19 Cases

Cases per 1,000 tests are rising in the majority of states.

Ronald Bailey | 7.21.2020 1:10 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Is About To Really Rev Up

Cheap, rapid antigen tests may be on the way—and the FDA has finally approved test pooling.

Ronald Bailey | 7.20.2020 4:00 PM

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Coronavirus

To Get Americans Safely Back to Work and Play, We Need Cheap and Plentiful At-home COVID-19 Testing

Enable people to act responsibly toward their neighbors and co-workers.

Ronald Bailey | 7.6.2020 4:05 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Herd Immunity Is Much Closer Than Antibody Tests Suggest, Say 2 New Studies

If the findings are true, that's really great news.

Ronald Bailey | 7.1.2020 11:40 AM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 Pool Testing Is a Stopgap Measure To Track and Curb the Pandemic

It could quickly amplify coronavirus testing by tenfold.

Ronald Bailey | 6.29.2020 3:20 PM

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Coronavirus

To Really Reopen the Economy, At-Home Diagnostic COVID-19 Tests Are Our Best Bet

Making cheap tests widely available would go a long way toward crushing the pandemic.

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2020 5:00 PM

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Coronavirus

New CRISPR Coronavirus Test Could Be a Pandemic 'Game-Changer'

Cheap accurate testing would enable the safe reopening of the U.S. economy.

Ronald Bailey | 5.6.2020 3:00 PM

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Coronavirus

Trump's COVID-19 Testing Blueprint Is Another Attempt to Avoid Responsibility

Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.

Ronald Bailey | 4.28.2020 4:31 PM

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Coronavirus

A Harvard Plan To Use Massive COVID-19 Testing To Reopen the Economy

This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.

Ronald Bailey | 4.20.2020 4:05 PM

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Coronavirus

COVID-19 'Immunity Passports' Could Be a Good Idea

Why not let recovered coronavirus patients out of lockdown?

Ronald Bailey | 4.2.2020 5:00 PM

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Coronavirus

FDA Tells At-Home Diagnostics Companies To Stop Coronavirus Test Roll-Outs

The companies are complying. Customers won't get their results and are being told to destroy their test kits.

Ronald Bailey | 3.25.2020 4:35 PM

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Coronavirus

Massive Coronavirus Testing Is the Way to Help Save the Economy

No time to waste; do it sooner rather than later.

Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2020 12:30 PM

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Coronavirus

FDA Should Get Out of the Way of At-Home COVID-19 Testing

Private-sector efforts to fill the testing vacuum run afoul of bureaucracy.

Ronald Bailey | 3.23.2020 1:05 PM

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Coronavirus

Our Best Weapon Against Coronavirus Is To Test Everybody

And it's not too late.

Ronald Bailey | 3.20.2020 4:55 PM

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Coronavirus

Donald Trump Declares 'We Will Ultimately and Expeditiously Defeat This Virus'

In two weeks we will know if his public health measures are too little, too late.

Ronald Bailey | 3.12.2020 11:30 AM

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Coronavirus

How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse

FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2020 11:25 AM

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Coronavirus

Did the Trump Administration Overpromise 1 Million COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests by the End of This Week?

The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2020 3:10 PM

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Donald Trump

The Myth of Donald Trump's Mental Illness

Don't medicalize political judgments.

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2018 12:00 PM

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Diagnosis

Much Hyped Theranos Diagnostics: Is It Vaporware?

Even worse, CEO Holmes evidently wants the FDA to regulate competing products

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2015 3:03 PM

Ebola

How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic

The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2014 1:30 PM

Cancer

Proctologists Despair: Researchers Devise a Potential Universal Cancer Test

Ronald Bailey | 7.30.2014 1:22 PM

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