SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) finally released its long-overdue report, following state inspections, which found “significant deficiencies” at California’s troubled COVID testing lab. The deficiencies were first exposed by a CBS13 whistleblower investigation.
The report, which was supposed to be released eight months ago, was released late Monday afternoon. While CBS13 is still reviewing the documents, a preliminary review finds that inspectors confirmed many of the whistleblowers’ allegations. Though the state’s summary of the investigation, released along with the inspection records Monday, misconstrued other whistleblower allegations.
The actual reports of deficiencies found by inspectors, during the state’s routine initial inspection and the whistleblower complaint investigation, tell a very different story than the one the Newsom administration tells in its summary of the findings.
Not surprisingly, the Newsom Administration did not issue sanctions against its own lab, despite findings of months-long deficiencies that “pose(d) immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.”
Instead, the administration concluded, “(t)his blueprint can serve as a model for other states, and the federal government, in how to scale testing.”
Notably, inspectors issued an October 21st Notice of Intent to Impose Sanctions for outstanding deficiencies just 10 days before the lab’s contract was renewed.
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