[The Washington Times] Yes — China is Scamming the World with Flawed Test Kits
1 min readMar 30, 2020
MADRID — Mass testing is more than ever a necessity at this stage of COVID-19’s outbreak. But would you trust a testing kit with a 30 percent accuracy rate? If America launched mass testing on these terms, would you feel safer?
Here in Spain — with the world’s fourth-largest case count at 70k — the point is moot. My country’s government returned more than 600k flawed kits to the Chinese LLC that manufactured them. So “easy” was the deal that when they bought the kits on Wednesday, Spanish health authorities didn’t seem the least concerned that the company isn’t even permitted to sell them in… China itself.
This piece featured in the print issue of The Washington Times on March 31st, 2020. Read it in its entirety here.
