President Trump Asks Korea for Coronavirus Test Kits, But Will FDA Approve Them?
A lot of people don’t realize the bureaucracy that getting test kits out to the public has had to go through initially. I guess we will see if the President is able to get these foreign made test kits approved by the FDA in expedient manner:
South Korea’s president said Donald Trump asked South Korea for help with coronavirus testing kits and other equipment, and officials offered to send what they could as the United States struggles to cope with the pandemic.
Moon Jae-in’s comments come as the South reported a slight uptick in the number of confirmed cases on Tuesday, raising the total to 9,137 but remaining far below the peak of 909 infections on Feb. 29.
Authorities blamed a large jump in imported cases, prompting them to impose a two-week quarantine on all visitors arriving from the United States, in addition to that already imposed on Europeans.
Trump made the request during a 23-minute phone conversation to discuss cooperation against the virus, according to the Blue House.
“Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump made a request to us for the urgent provision of test kits and quarantine products,” Moon said Wednesday during a visit to Seegene Inc., a Seoul-based company that develops diagnostic solutions.
The comment elaborated on a transcript of the phone conversation showing that Moon was willing to provide as much equipment as it could spare but noted possible limitations because of the U.S. need for approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
“When President Moon explained that FDA approval may be required, President Trump said he would take immediate action to ensure that approval is granted within the day,” according to the transcript.
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The Bio-medical company SeeGen is already supplying California with the kit, as well as supplying up to 80% of kits being used in Italy, France, UK, Spain, and 17 other countries. I don’t see how the FDA can’t approve the kits when the kits are approved in Europe, and the US president says he would ensure approval on the same day. The US and Europe do not have the scales of testing yet, which this company has developed using AI technology. They are capable of giving results for 10,000 test samples within 6 hours. Their servers also have the capability to pick up any genetic changes made by the virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=OZseeYA1Ee0&feature=emb_logo
South Korea’s test kit producers
You obviously do not understand Americans…every country uses the metric system except….every country has introduced a chip in their credit cards. last to do that was…Most every country in the world is using this labs test kits except….I could keep going on…
Three Korean companies now have approval from the FDA, and two more Korean companies are also waiting for approval any day now. So, the test kits are now on their way to the US. Over 117 countries have inquired about the test kits, and they can’t fulfill all the requests. So South Korea is prioritizing its best friendly countries over others. That means UAE was the first. Second was Romania (who helped South Korea, recover dozens of dead South Korean tourists who died in Hungary’s boat accident last year), Columbia, Indonesia, and United States. These countries didn’t slam their doors on South Korea when things were looking bad for South Korea last month. The rest of the countries have to take their numbers and wait in line.