place radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher recall alert recall alert

the first company to get food and drug administration approval to sell its over the counter covid

tests recalling nearly 200,000 of those kits sold by retailers including Amazon CVS target

and Walmart. There were a larger than expected rate of false positives. So the recall involves

43 lots distributed to retailers and the Department of Defense between April and August test

kitmaker elum ELL UME said that specific lots reported higher positivity rates than seen

in clinical trials prompting the Brisbane Australia based company to look into the issue

which I you know think was nice of them and they're working to fix it. So what are you so

mad about they isolated the cause that confirmed that this incidence of false positives is limited

to specific lots we recognize that this incident may have shaken the confidence and may shake

the confidence of some of you trusted elum to help them manage their health and take back a

bit of control in their lives during this pandemic and look we apologize for any stress or difficulties

to those of you who falsely tested positive but hey there were about 427,000 tests in the lots

being recalled with about 195,000 unused and subject to the recall and about 160,000 of those

tests produced negative results considered reliable while about 42,000 produced positive results

which include both true positives and false positives. So we're just notifying those affected

by the recall and we just want you to be aware of it okay and you can check on their website

whether it's one of the tests that you have and elum is making sure that the manufacturing issue

is resolved okay so quit your whining and of course I mean the Biden administration the people

in charge of Washington DC said last month that it was going to partner with retailers including

Amazon crogr and Walmart to make the at-home rapid test less costly and easier to get so we're

just only investing another billion and putting more of the tests on the market but let's hope

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