The IDT kits would fill the void that had been left by the CDC’s sequential failures with its own kits.17 By mid-March, IDT had a sufficient number of primer and probe kits, authorized by FDA, to make it possible to manufacture about 10 million tests that followed the CDC’s protocol. Most people assumed that the testing hole was filled when the CDC finally got its own test working. In reality, it was IDT kits that supplied the market.
