2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Reagents, 2019-Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

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openFDA event book Reagents MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#133 of 1000 · 20,135 reports · 2020–2026

  • BOOK 20,135 reports
  • RANK #133 of 1000
  • DEATH 8 death-typed
  • INJ 303 injury-typed
  • MALF 19,816 malfunction
  • SPAN 2020–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 7,300
  • PHOTO Port & Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Port & Catheter, Implanted, Subcutaneous, Intravascular (50 report gap)

Reagents, 2019-Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid sits #133 of 1000 among tracked device types with 20,135 MAUDE reports spanning 2020–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 1.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-28.9 pp)
  • MALF 98.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+33.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code False Positive Result is 49% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS SCARBOROUGH, INC. accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .

Reagents in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Reagents, 2019-Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid carries 20,135 MAUDE reports, ranked #133 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 19,816 (98.4%)
Injury 303 (1.5%)
Death 8 (0.0%)
7 (0.0%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

18,363 (91.1%)
Other 1,587 (7.9%)
Hospitalization 68 (0.3%)
Disability 23 (0.1%)
Death 18 (0.1%)
Required Intervention 17 (0.1%)
O 16 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 13 (0.1%)
H 11 (0.1%)
R 11 (0.1%)
S 8 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 5 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)
L 3 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

False Positive Result 13,402
Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings 3,503
False Negative Result 2,809
Output Problem 2,610
Non Reproducible Results 2,270
No Apparent Adverse Event 1,396
Erratic Results 580
Nonstandard Device 109
Unable to Obtain Readings 103
Off-Label Use 68
Device Contaminated at the User Facility 51
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 38
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 32
Use of Device Problem 27
Increased Sensitivity 25
Insufficient Information 21
Defective Component 14
Low Readings 13
Incorrect Measurement 12
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 10

Yearly Trend

20
2020: 1,637
21
2021: 7,300
22
2022: 7,022
23
2023: 3,190
24
2024: 610
25
2025: 370
26
2026: 6

Related Entities for Reagents, 2019-Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid

Event Locations

13,093 (65.0%)
I 6,867 (34.1%)
NO INFORMATION 173 (0.9%)
HOSPITAL 1 (0.0%)
N 1 (0.0%)

Compare ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS SCARBOROUGH, INC. vs ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC. - BRANCHBURG →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Reagents, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (20,135 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (8 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Reagents are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Reagents; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.