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Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests

By The Washington Post  
   April 18, 2020

The failure by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly produce a test kit for detecting the novel coronavirus was triggered by a glaring scientific breakdown at the CDC’s central laboratory complex in Atlanta, according to scientists with knowledge of the matter and a determination by federal regulators.

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