[milesvp]

My understanding is that it’s based on a law from several decades ago, when it was difficult to get your hands on a sequencer, that was meant to help empower the CDC once some kind of pandemic was declared in order to get tests out faster. Now that sequencers are commonplace, the same law instead of speeding up the deployment of these tests now slows them down.

[jshevek]

This is something the media should be discussing more, to motivate legislators to fix ASAP.

[Muuuchem]

Only except our media has absolutely no interest in promoting actual positive change, sadly...

[jpster]

But really, it’s ridiculous that lawmakers and policymakers cannot see the harm done by these rules, themselves.

[TuringNYC]

Except most of the media is too busy with sound bites and simple review, not deep analyses.