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Letter: Our public health system does too little, too late

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Testing for COVID-19 is performed at the Wasatch County Event Center in Heber City on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, under one of the TestUtah.com contracts the state has with Nomi Health.

Perhaps only in Utah can citizen taxpayer funds support million-dollar, no-bid, inside-job contracts to a previously unknown vendor of unvalidated COVID tests that don’t provide accurate COVID-19 diagnostic answers. We move from no testing to too late, inadequate testing to poor, unvalidated testing known to produce the wrong answers. And the vendor still doesn’t have to show any public evidence that their assay even works. What a public health system.

David Grainger, Salt Lake City

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