The test kits for detecting the nation’s earliest cases of the novel coronavirus failed because of “likely” contamination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose scientists did not...

A federal review by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that the early version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) coronavirus test kits failed because of...

Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly ...

A contamination of the first round of COVID-19 testing kits made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slowed the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, The Washington Post and CNN confirmed Saturday.

Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials ...

The Post reported that CDC facilities that assembled the testing kits "violated sound manufacturing practices, resulting in contamination of one of the three test components used in the highly ...

Contamination in the CDC lab caused a month-long delay of the coronavirus test kits getting to labs.. An investigation carried out by the The Washington Post found that the lab at the Centers for ...

The FDA expert determined it was a manufacturing issue and worked with the CDC to facilitate the production and quality control processing of test kits made by one of its contract manufacturers ...

As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted lab test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus,...