{"id":103793,"date":"2020-03-15T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-fda-approves-thermo-fishers-coronavirus-test-official"},"modified":"2020-03-15T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:06:09","slug":"u-s-fda-approves-thermo-fishers-coronavirus-test-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-fda-approves-thermo-fishers-coronavirus-test-official","title":{"rendered":"U.S. FDA approves Thermo Fisher\u2019s coronavirus test: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc\u2019s coronavirus test, which would allow the firm to increase capacity to 1.4 million tests a week, a Trump administration official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will dramatically increase our ability to test people for the virus,\u201d the official said. It was not immediately clear if capacity referred to test kit production or processing of tests performed on individual patients.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the Trump administration struggles to meet demand for testing. The FDA has already approved emergency authorization for a faster coronavirus test made by Swiss diagnostics maker Roche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc\u2019s coronavirus test, which would allow the firm to increase capacity to 1.4 million tests a week, a Trump administration official said. \u201cThis will dramatically increase our ability to test people for the virus,\u201d the official said. It was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}