The methodology used by Premier Medical Laboratory Services is not a grey area. It is documented in the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's own published federal record — in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Volume 70, Number 49, dated December 10, 2021. Same method. Same contractor pathway. Published by the CDC itself.
Full Story →The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is the CDC's official weekly publication for scientific and policy findings. It is one of the most cited federal public health documents in the United States.
Volume 70, Number 49 — dated December 10, 2021 — documents the CDC's own use of pooled COVID-19 testing through the Increasing Community Access to Testing (ICATT) program, executed via the eTrueNorth contractor.
This is the same pooled-testing methodology used at Premier Medical Laboratory Services. The same contractor pathway. Published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under CDC editorial review, for the public record.
When the methodology used in Greenville, South Carolina was reviewed years later, the public record already contained the CDC's own adoption of the identical approach. That is not disputed. That is not spin. That is the federal record.
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The CDC's own MMWR Vol. 70, No. 49 (December 10, 2021) documents the CDC deploying the same pooled-testing methodology through the same eTrueNorth contractor pathway. That is a federal-record fact. It is not in dispute.
What is also a matter of public record: Premier Medical Laboratory Services was one of six independently operated clinical laboratories under Diversified Medical Healthcare — each separately CLIA certified, each with its own licensed lab director, each under its own state regulatory framework, each publicly announced via PRNewswire or SCBio.
Four of the six ran COVID testing. Meta Lab DX in Charlotte, NC held COVID testing contracts including for North Carolina school districts. First Medical in Irving, TX operated COVID workflows using different reagents. Synapse Analytical Labs in Raleigh, NC launched in September 2022. All announced publicly (SCBio, PRNewswire). All under the same CEO.
Only Premier Medical was targeted. The question the public record raises is not whether the pooled-testing methodology was legitimate — the CDC's own weekly report answers that. The question is why, of six independently operated laboratories in a publicly documented network using largely overlapping procedures, only one became the focus. That question is not asked or answered anywhere in the federal record available to date. It deserves one.
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