US Agencies Join Forces To Accelerate Development Of Emergency Diagnostics
Executive Summary
Three US health-care agencies – FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – set up a “Tri-Agency Task Force for Emergency Diagnostics” to rapidly push effective emergency-use tests into the field when outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, Influenza or similar health threats occur in the US or globally.