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by prepend 2310 days ago
Isn’t the idea of review to confirm that “highly unlikely?”

Without review, unscrupulous (or incompetent) vendors could make a test with unknown usefulness.

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I'm not talking about making an entire test kit, but rather labs with existing RT-PCR abilities (ie the vast majority of molecular biology labs) having the appropriate primers and probes synthesized by the standard (non-clinical) vendors that they order from every day.