Collected Item: “Texas is spending $45 million on new coronavirus tests that prisoners are administering to themselves”
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Texas is spending $45 million on new coronavirus tests that prisoners are administering to themselves
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article
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"The state purchased 300,000 oral swab tests from a months-old California company. So far, only highly-infected prisons are using them for mass testing." The test has a 10% rate of false negatives. This test was given a rapid approval by the FDA and they have said anyone with symptoms and a negative test should be retested. The worry is without accurate testing of most inmates that the virus will spread widely and quickly due to unsanitary and cramped conditions.
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incarceration, prison, social distancing, testing, FDA, oral swab, false negative, Texas, Greg Abott
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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/14/texas-prisons-coronavirus-tests-curative/
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Jolie McCullough
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2020-05-14