{"id":16815,"date":"2020-08-04T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T03:06:48","slug":"fda-coronavirus-covid-19-update-august-4th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/08\/04\/fda-coronavirus-covid-19-update-august-4th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: August 4th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-488618\" title=\"U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/U.S.-Food-and-Drug-Administration-FDA.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\" width=\"270\" height=\"64\"><strong>Silver Spring, MD<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_486022\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-3.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486022\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-486022\" title=\"Coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-3-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-486022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coronavirus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The FDA issued emergency use authorizations (EUAs) to Siemens for its<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/140703\/download\" > ADVIA Centaur SARS-CoV-2 IgG (COV2G)<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/140700\/download\" >Atellica IM SARS-CoV-2 IgG (COV2G)<\/a> tests, which are the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-tests-estimate-patients-antibodies-past-sars-cov-2\" title=\"Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Tests that Estimate a Patient\u2019s Antibodies from Past SARS-CoV-2 Infection\"  data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"6200bf39-e38e-4417-8b97-f855691ff976\">first COVID-19 serology tests that display an estimated quantity of antibodies<\/a> present in the tested individual\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n<p>These tests are known as \u201csemi-quantitative\u201d because they do not display a precise measure, but rather, they provide an estimate of the quantity of a patient\u2019s antibodies produced against infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Testing updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To date, the FDA has currently authorized 198 tests under EUAs; these include 161 molecular tests, 35 antibody tests, and 2 antigen tests.<\/p>\n<h3>About the U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation\u2019s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Spring, MD &#8211; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[13070,12675,12712,12993,1110,12734,9199,1109],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-antibody","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-tests","tag-fda","tag-pandemic","tag-silver-spring-md","tag-u-s-food-and-drug-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16816,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}