Chris Mangal

We can have public health labs developing their own lab-developed tests, if this rose to an emergency scenario, similar to Covid, laboratories could work through the FDA to obtain an emergency use authorization for confirmatory tests.

When they run that test, and if that test comes back positive, they will report presumptive positive for non-variola orthopoxvirus. And that presumptive positive is actually good enough -- that, combined with what you're seeing in terms of the patient presentation -- to give them a sense that' we should take public health actions here,'.