Usually, if it sounds like a hoax it is. This is not. Reality stranger than fake news.
Fulgent met with L.A. County leaders last month to address their concerns.
“These representatives from the L.A. County sheriff’s office were made aware that Fulgent does not collect any personal DNA in connection with COVID testing and disregarded all of Fulgent’s valid points from this conversation in writing this letter to the L.A. [County] Board of Supervisors,”
In a statement Tuesday, Perthuis wrote that the U.S.-based company was founded and is led by American citizens. He said the company does not share personal data about people who are tested with the Chinese government and that the company does not use samples collected during tests to sequence people’s unique DNA structure.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-29/la-county-sheriff-fulgent-genetics-covid-testing-data-china
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Perthuis said " He said the company does not share personal data about people who are tested with the Chinese government and that the company does not use samples collected during tests to sequence people’s unique DNA structure."
We do not share directly, we do not sequence, if you dont like it you should opt out.
LA County employees ? You can quit if you don't like it.
The Board of Supervisors gets a sales pitch from the vendor.
The sheriff, at a later date, gets a heads up from the FBI.