C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say Sloppy laboratory practices  caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing  standards,resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs. The F.D.A.,  sent Dr. Timothy Stenzel, chief of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the C.D.C. labs to assess the problem, several officials said. He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned  that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said. Problems ranged from researchers entering and exiting the coronavirus laboratories without changing their coats, to test ingredients being assembled in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples, officials said. Those practices made the tests sent to public health labs unusable because they were contaminated with the  coronavirus, and produced some inconclusive results. In a statement on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., Stephanie Caccomo, said, “C.D.C. did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/cdc-coronavirus-lab-contamination-testing.html?fbclid=IwAR3OV-kL1Hv6zLTbiHGIK5ZmUc9LWAgL5TbVhR5u4RYpeKnTcddQr93N_V8