{"id":15712,"date":"2020-04-09T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:40:53","slug":"sec-suspends-trading-of-company-that-sold-at-home-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15712","title":{"rendered":"SEC Suspends Trading Of Company That Sold &#8216;At-Home&#8217; COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Tom Dreisbach for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily suspended trading of shares of Wellness Matrix Group, citing statements &#8220;made through affiliated websites and a company consultant about selling at-home COVID-19 testing kits that had been approved by the FDA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspension lasts until April 22.<\/p>\n<p>As NPR first reported last week, the California-based Wellness Matrix Group had been selling an &#8220;at-home&#8221; test kit for COVID-19, and, at times, claimed that test was &#8220;FDA Approved.&#8221;\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/04\/08\/830312298\/sec-suspends-trading-of-company-that-sold-at-home-covid-19-tests\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Tom Dreisbach for NPR) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily suspended trading of shares of Wellness Matrix Group,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-illegal-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15713,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions\/15713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}