
This is why you can't find rapid at-home Covid tests in America
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While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone's saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration had more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications and didn't have the resources to get through them.
"We want to try to avoid the EUA quagmire," said Peb Hendrix, the startup's vice president of operations. Its test is still in early development. On the advice of consultants, the company is weighing an alternative route through the FDA to the U.S. market.
"It's just the way our government works," Hendrix said, which is a challenge for businesses that are "anxious to get started and think they've got something that can help."
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