This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It. shared by Jacob Grier

@Jake · Dec 22, 2021

Of all the US failures on COVID, missing the potential of rapid tests is among the most infuriating, if only because we've had so long to correct it.

This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It.

Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. The Harvard-trained scientist already had a factory set up. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.

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