Those unreliable COVID-19 home test kits have been available for a while, and I know people who swear by them, but most folks swear at them or have sworn never to use one. That last bit might not be a bad idea. The FDA just issued a recall on over a half million of the things.
More than a half million home COVID-19 tests from Roche and SD Biosensor should be thrown out immediately, the Food and Drug Administration is warning, citing “significant concerns” over bacteria that could infect users of the tests.
The FDA says the recalled “Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests” can be identified by lot numbers listed on this page. 500,000 were distributed to CVS and 16,000 to Amazon. …
“SD Biosensor Inc., the manufacturer of the Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Test, informed Roche that this issue was identified during routine quality assurance testing. Potentially harmful bacteria were found in the liquid buffer solution,” Roche said in a statement.
What bacteria? According to CBS News, “Enterococcus, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, and Serratia, which can lead to potentially dangerous infections, especially in people with compromised immune systems.”
I did a bit of searching for buffer solutions. There are more than a few stories instructing people not to drink them or put them in their eyes, but I can’t recall hearing about those before today. We heard about the guy from Arizona (March 2020) who died after taking fish tank cleaner (it had chloroquine in it), though not so much how he and his wife (she had some, too) were both Democrats that voted for Hillary.
Remember horse paste? That was huge, and not just because the FDA lied about it on Twitter. And we heard a lot about Misoprostol, a common veterinary ulcer medication that could induce an abortion if your state decided to prohibit them. But the FDA never found time to tell us that (ironically) it was also horse medicine with a people dose, just like Ivermectin.
COVID-19 antigen test buffer solution consumption seems not to have risen to that level. Stories did not go wide because they might have scared people away from the system-crashing, panic-inducing tests. So, is this one of those turning-over-a-leaf moments? CBS News has a story about a COVID-19 test recall. Did they have to ask permission before they ran it?
And if it matters, or the news can be trusted, no illnesses have yet been attributed to the recalled tests. These are, of course, the same people who still insist the COVID-19 injections are safe and effective, even though Pfizer and the FDA knew that was a lie before they rolled them out.
