How to Survive a Pandemic
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM · 1,072pp · 237,186 words
seem to offer any protection. They concluded, “Pathogenic bacteria can be recovered relatively frequently from the kitchen environment.”553 Some animal parts are so contaminated that the CDC recommends that during preparation the household meat handler find caretakers to supervise his or her children so as not to infect them.554 The
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
by Scott Gottlieb · 20 Sep 2021
was becoming clear that the trouble with the CDC’s manufacturing process might be the result of a more systemic failure, perhaps related to contamination at the CDC site that was making the kits, and this was now affecting many parts of the agency’s diagnostic test. The CDC wasn’t a
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massive failure. So, what happened to the CDC’s own test? The labs learned much later that the third and extra reagent that CDC included, the N3, was contaminated with coronavirus RNA. But N1 was also contaminated, although at a lower level. At some point in the manufacturing process, someone had probably
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in further manufacturing of the reagents,” after the problems first arose.22 The email suggested that the CDC knew that the lab might be contaminated.23 When the CDC made the first batches of test kits, the respiratory lab was probably still clean. So the first runs of those kits were assembled
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without any contamination. The CDC retained this first batch of kits for its own use, to process patient samples that were being sent to the agency by doctors. But then
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’t have the same problems. The CDC issued its own internal report, which also identified the virology lab as one potential source of the contamination. But the CDC report stopped short of concluding that this lab was the cause of the problems. The report’s uncertainty underscored the challenges with the agency
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were most at risk wouldn’t be measured by the size of their mass transit systems, because the principal driver of transmission wasn’t contaminated shared surfaces. The CDC’s revised guidance would later declare that most of the transmission was through respiratory spread. However, it would take the CDC almost a
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–34. 21.Bandler et al., “Inside the Fall of the CDC.” 22.Willman, “The CDC’s Failed Race Against Covid-19.” 23.David Willman, “Contamination at CDC Lab Delayed Rollout of Coronavirus Tests,” Washington Post, April 18, 2020; and Washington Post, “Sum mary of the Findings of the Immediate Office of the
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
by Lawrence Wright · 7 Jun 2021 · 391pp · 112,312 words
recounted this story as an amusing insight into his personality, the only frailty he admits to. He seems intrigued by his horror of contamination. By rejecting the CDC guidance and refusing to wear a mask, the president was making a powerful statement, far more dangerous than his idle speculation about injecting disinfectant
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021
Paying No Federal Income Tax,” Tax Policy Center, Sept. 5, 2018. CHAPTER 10: THE CENTERS FOR PASSING THE BUCK But the coronavirus tests David Willman, “Contamination at CDC Lab Delayed Rollout of Coronavirus Tests,” Washington Post, April 18, 2020. “It was just tragic” Sheila Kaplan, “C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb · 15 Nov 2022 · 772pp · 150,109 words
CDC workers had been potentially exposed to deadly anthrax when live samples were accidentally distributed to three different laboratories, while in a separate incident another CDC laboratory contaminated a normal flu sample with H5N1 and then shipped it to a government facility.99 These breaches were not one-offs. In 2012 it
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
Trump Signed Executive Order 13769, Temporarily Barring Foreigners from Entering the U.S. If They Had Been to China,” Reuters. However, the Centers: Willman, “Contamination at CDC Lab Delayed Rollout of Coronavirus Tests.” Fixing this took weeks: Lopez, “Why America’s Coronavirus Testing Barely Improved in April.” “The idea of anybody”: “Canada
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(1633).” Westshore Community College. www.westshore.edu/personal/mwnagle/US1/NativeAmerDocs/Bradford-sickness.htm. Willman, David. “Contamination at CDC Lab Delayed Rollout of Coronavirus Tests.” The Washington Post, April 18, 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/contamination-at-cdc-lab-delayed-rollout-of-coronavirus-tests/2020/04/18/fd7d3824-7139-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson · 9 Mar 2021 · 700pp · 160,604 words
Mullis, “The Unusual Origin of the Polymerase Chain Reaction,” Scientific American, Apr. 1990. 3. Boburg et al., “Inside the Coronavirus Testing Failure”; David Willman, “Contamination at CDC Lab Delayed Rollout of Coronavirus Tests,” Washington Post, Apr. 18, 2020. 4. JoNel Aleccia, “How Intrepid Lab Sleuths Ramped Up Tests as Coronavirus Closed In
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
for a Record $27 Million,” The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2011, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304911104576444362936635124. and ultimately flawed: Riley Beggin, “Report: The CDC Contaminated Its First Coronavirus Tests, Setting US Back,” Vox, April, 18, 2020, https://www.vox.com/2020/4/18/21226372/coronavirus-tests
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-cdc-contaminated-delay-testing. “Software is eating the world”: Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating the World,” Andreessen Horowitz, August 20, 2011, https://a16z.com/2011/08/
Blood Music
by Greg Bear · 19 May 2014
, now dead—” “Murdered,” Yng said, shaking his head in disbelief. “And spreading at an alarming rate.” “Yes,” Yng said, “but what can the CDC do about it? The contamination has spread, perhaps across the continent by now.” “No,” Harrison said, “not quite that far. Vergil hasn’t made contact with that many