The Chinese scandal kit has rocked the industry, and especially the FDA. There are no high level scientists or engineers in the FDA EUA group. They specifically left out the FDA respiratory group -- a terrible decision.
The way the FDA reacted to the demand for more test kits was to basically rubber stamp all of one type of method for determining Covid-19. They also have come close to black-balling a second, even more promising methodology -- antibodies because the EUA group has some issues with the accuracy of these methods -- and yes there is a little truth in that, but not enough truth to crush those companies.
So the people that gave us Covid-19 in the first place are now undermining our response with bad and counterfeit kits. There will be an FDA over-reaction to this too. This is an instance when the FDA, with its Obama hating of small business and entrepreneurial culture still instilled, chooses winners and losers, almost always before the EUA application is filed.
It is a tribute to Mr. Berman that he recognizes this and was prepared to be told NO by some low level bureaucrat, and then take that NO and use it against the FDA. There is no bargaining with these bureaucrats, you either fight them to the death, or you accept them. Berman has no intention of accepting them or his detractors on the message boards. By the way, Mr. Berman is on the phone on a Sunday with 4 U.S. Congressmen. This will get done.
As for TAUG's consultant, he has nothing in the Covid-19 battle. No money, no product, no management, no customers for his (supposed) product. But here he is, almost 24/7 trashing the better man's product and company. And by the way, it is true in this instance that the market has spoken about the TAUG Covid-19 myth. Actually the market puked.
