{"id":119,"date":"2020-03-18T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=119"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:00:24","slug":"fda-guidance-aims-to-accelerate-availability-of-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/18\/fda-guidance-aims-to-accelerate-availability-of-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Guidance Aims to Accelerate Availability of COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 2020, the U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) issued\u00a0<a title=\"Policy for Diagnostic Tests for Coronavirus Disease-2019 during the Public Health Emergency\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/135659\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new guidance<\/a>\u00a0aimed at accelerating the availability of COVID-19 diagnostic tests developed by laboratories and commercial manufacturers. The guidance, which took immediate effect upon release, contains recommendations for clinical laboratories and commercial manufacturers regarding development of diagnostic tests for COVID-19 during the current public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/fda_guidance_aims_accelerate_availability_covid19_tests_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 2020, the U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) issued\u00a0new guidance\u00a0aimed at accelerating the availability of COVID-19 diagnostic tests developed by laboratories and commercial manufacturers. The guidance, which took immediate effect upon release, contains recommendations for clinical laboratories and commercial manufacturers regarding development of diagnostic tests for COVID-19 during the current public health &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/18\/fda-guidance-aims-to-accelerate-availability-of-covid-19-tests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDA Guidance Aims to Accelerate Availability of COVID-19 Tests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,46,957,36,682,461],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coronavirus-test","tag-fda","tag-life-sciences-and-medical-technologies","tag-medical-testing","tag-testing","tag-treatment"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}