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A new potential simple low cost $10 Covid test now appears in the US;
In a statement, Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, called the test “groundbreaking,” partly because it doesn’t need additional components, which have been prone to shortages, necessary with the standard nasal swab COVID-19 test.
The test, known as SalivaDirect, “is simpler, less expensive, and less invasive than the traditional method for such testing,” Yale said in a news release Saturday.
The authorization allows the test to bypass the FDA’s regular approval process.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yale-s-covid-19-saliva-test-used-nba-gets-fda-n1236900
Yale’s COVID-19 saliva test used in NBA gets FDA emergency approval
AN APOLOGY IS NEEDED TO BE GIVEN TO WINSTON PETERS ABOUT HIS WARNING THAT A BORDER BREACH WAS MADE AROUND 13TH AUGUST AND GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA DISMISSED HIS WARNING.
NOW HE WAS PROVEN CORRECT TODAY; BELOW IS THE EVIDENCE.
Winston was tipped off on 13th Aug and the infected worker was sick on 11th and was tested for Covid 19 and the positive results come back on 16th and he was quarantined to Jet Park that very day.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122479855/coronavirus-one-covid19-case-under-investigation-not-linked-to-cluster
Coronavirus: One Covid-19 case ‘under investigation’ not linked to cluster
Brittany Keogh12:49, Aug 18 2020
Winston was telling the truth, Government should apologise to him for dismissing his warning he sent on 11th August.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/winston-peters-claims-current-auckland-covid-19-cluster-linked-quarantine-breach
Winston Peters claims current Auckland Covid-19 cluster could be linked to quarantine breach
THU, AUG 13 • SOURCE: 1 NEWS
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has claimed the current Auckland cluster could be linked to a breach in New Zealand’s quarantine system.
Four people from one South Auckland family tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, with that cluster growing to 17 today.
New Auckland cluster linked to quarantine breach, Winston peters alleges
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The Deputy Prime Minister said he was informed following a tip-off from a journalist. Source: ABC Australia
Mr Peters said he was given the information by a New Zealand journalist, who he said was “usually very reliable”.
“It wasn’t an official, I found out from somewhere else, but I think there’s been a breach inside our quarantine system,” Mr Peters said in an interview with Australian news channel ABC.
He said while “a lot of the conversation and a lot of the narrative is speculation,” the country should know “the exact details of what happened”.
“I think, when that comes out very shortly, in a matter of maybe less than a day, we’ll find out that was the case, but you don’t always find out from your officials, you don’t always find out from the experts -it’s something you sort of find out by contact with other people,” he said.
Mr Peters questioned New Zealand’s stringent measures to contain the virus at the border after the outbreak.
“We went hard and we went early, but the question is, did we go hard enough and ensure that the policing, that the scrutiny and the quarantine was as tight as it could have been? And we need to know that,” he said.
Auckland, where the initial four cases are based, went under Level 3 lockdown at noon yesterday. The rest of the country is currently operating under Level 2 restrictions.
A further 13 people were announced to have tested positive for Covid-19 today.
Prime Minister’s office unaware of Winston Peters’ claims Covid-19 outbreak came from quarantine breach
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The Deputy Prime Minister made the claim on an Australian news channel. Source: 1 NEWS
He said an investigation into the potential breach “should have been done by officials a long time ago. Hours and hours ago.”
Mr Peters said they will find out the results of the investigation by around 2pm tomorrow.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s office told 1 NEWS that they did not know what Mr Peters was referring to with the claims.
The Ministry of Health told 1 NEWS in a statement, “Dr Bloomfield was asked about the source of the outbreak at the stand up today and said that was something we were still investigating.”
Yes. Clever us in US – https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300082974/kiwi-scientists-covid19-saliva-test-given-goahead-by-fda-in-the-us
Have you heard about minks and Covid-19? https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/300085181/cornavirus-first-us-covid19-cases-in-minks-found
A heads-up re changes in UK over covid-19: Meanwhile, the “failing” Public Health England is set to be scrapped and replaced by a new German-style pandemic response agency, The Telegraph can disclose. The new body is due to be set up by early next month, in time for the feared surge in coronavirus cases this autumn. Read our exclusive story here. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/08/15/hancock-axes-failing-public-health-england/
The Christchurch Health Board – between a rock and a hard place and I think (completely unschooled in the
financial aspects and working on ‘commonsense’) that the financial controls and methods need overhauling and Chch is being put through the wringer particularly painfully.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018759478/what-s-behind-the-management-exodus-at-the-cdhb
Lewis also speaks to The Detail about how the 2011 earthquakes led to the massive deficit at the Canterbury DHB.
The DHB was forced to demolish 44 buildings and it was left with many more that needed repairs.
“It’s embarked on this rebuild process for about a decade so you’ve got all these new facilities coming online which have cost hundreds of millions of dollars. When you get new buildings, you attract higher rates of depreciation and capital charges,” says Lewis.
We look at what that means and why it has contributed to the deficit despite extra government funding.
Lewis says there’s also ongoing tension between the Canterbury DHB and the Ministry of Health, despite independent facilitators coming in to try and bridge the relationship.
He talks about a desperate letter to the Prime Minister, shaky staff morale and the big vacuum of leadership at the country’s second largest DHB with covid-19 still looming over our heads.
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