Seems we have to rely on American news media more and more, for the truth: A bank statement showing a $128-million deposit into the company’s account from the British government.
The recipient of that massive windfall was Innova Medical Group, a company formed at the start of the pandemic that became an unlikely global supplier of COVID-19 tests.
In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it had “significant concerns” that Innova’s test could produce false results leading to serious illness or death. The agency urged the relatively few Americans who had received Innova’s product to “destroy the tests by placing them in the trash.”
The warning followed an inspection earlier this year of Innova’s offices, where FDA officials found things in disarray.
Inside a storage room, government inspectors found 13 cartons of tests co-mingled with boxes of the product damaged or set to be destroyed with no markings indicating which boxes were OK to ship, according to an FDA letter sent to the company. Tests had been shipped with the wrong instructions, the inspectors found. And Innova had not inspected or otherwise verified its tests after receiving them from its manufacturer in China. The tests caught only 58% of infections when self-administered. Users are supposed to register test results but a recent audit of the test-and-trace program found that only 14% of the 691 million antigen tests distributed to homes, schools and elsewhere had been registered as taken by late May. It’s possible many more tests have been used but it’s also possible many millions haven’t. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-28/innova-pasaca-covid-17-antigen-test-british-uk-government?fbclid=IwAR3xOmvBCE_nW_5zCnnN2aXZkZHW_flEKsKxC259kL9e9VcNzNcubGPsJak
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