The US FDA on 29 February approved New York State’s and New York City’s combined Emergency Use Authorization request to conduct coronavirus testing at the state’s Wadsworth Center laboratory in Albany, and its NYC public-health department-based lab. Both sites are CLIA-certified to proceed using COVID-19 laboratory-developed tests, the FDA’s Tim Stenzel said during a 2 March webinar on virus testing.
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to two New York-based CLIA-certified laboratories, permitting them to use their molecular-based diagnostic for patients suspected of carrying coronavirus.
So said Tim Stenzel, director of the FDA’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health (OIR), during a 2...