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Federal Regulators Halt a Gates-Funded Coronavirus Testing Program Over Consent Rules
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In May 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered a pause to the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN), a home-testing and disease-surveillance project funded in part by Bill Gates and praised by him as a model for tracking COVID-19. Regulators said the program needed separate emergency authorization before it could continue returning test results to participants who had collected their own samples. Researchers — who said they had been working with the FDA for weeks to secure approval — suspended testing and resumed weeks later after addressing the regulatory requirements. The episode drew attention to oversight questions surrounding fast-moving, privately funded pandemic research.
Source: https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/27/coronavirus-testing-seattle-bill-gates-fda/
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