FDA issues EUAs for COVID-19 tests, resuscitator and ventilator
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized the emergency use of two COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests. The tests from Inform Diagnostics Inc. and Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory LLC detect in respiratory specimens nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
FDA also recently added an emergency resuscitator and a ventilator to its ventilator EAU list.
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