{"id":2457616,"date":"2020-04-24T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/test-plan-shelved-over-accuracy-questions\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:16:00","slug":"test-plan-shelved-over-accuracy-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/test-plan-shelved-over-accuracy-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Test plan shelved over accuracy questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too many concerns and not enough answers about a COVID-19 test and the results it might yield led local public health officials Thursday to halt plans for an initial round of community-wide virus screening.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still working to see if this is an accurate test,\u201d said Gabe Muething, one of the commanders of the team managing the local response to the virus outbreak. \u201cWe\u2019re still missing a few pieces to effectively say, \u2018This is worth our time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Local officials had gone so far as to stage a dry run April 17 of the COVID-19 antibody test they were able to procure from an Englewood company called Aytu Bioscience. The 10 tests they ran on people with virus symptoms who reported to the Aspen Village Fire Station were in preparation for testing 1,000 county residents.<\/p>\n

And while officials felt like the testing \u201cwent well,\u201d they forwarded results to Aytu for accuracy analysis and were still waiting for those answers Thursday, Muething said. They have not been told the tests are not good, he said.<\/p>\n

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