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While the FDA has taken its foot off the hose of testing production, it continues to restrict their uses. Srinivasan, a Peter Theil-ally who interviewed with the administration in 2017 to lead the agency, вЂњFDAвЂ™s initial delay set the US back six weeks, blinding us to the scale of the epidemic, and turning a containable epidemic into a crisis.вЂќ Although the FDA tweaked its rule five days later to allow labs to begin testing kits (though it still barred their active use without approval), it wasnвЂ™t until March 16 thatВ the FDA finally removed its grasp on the private sector and allowed labsВ get approval through state agencies. On Feburary 24, the USВ Association of Public Health LaboratoriesВ made desperate appeals to get into the game. While the CDCвЂ™s government labs were creating fatally flawed COVID-19 tests, private labs were desperately trying to receive waivers to ramp up their own efforts.

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As the continuing coronavirus places a larger microscope on the agencyвЂ™s actions, hopefully more are waking up to the costs inherent to their management.ДЇrom the beginning of this battle, the FDA has slowed American medical companies' ability toВ respondВ at full capacity.ДЇor example, it was FDA regulations that significantly slowed the creation of testing kits in the early days of the crisis. Unfortunately, both of these government bureaucracies actively undermine the healthcare systems of their nation. For many Americans, the FDA has taken on a sort of mystique as the gold standard of medical guidance-similar to the emotional connection many Britons feel for the National Health Service (NHS).