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my only problem with the abbott assay is their use of a single-sample platform. why not make it just a little more high-throughput? like 8 samples, even?
Vietnam has already developed a test kit that gives results within an hour. They have had 148 confirmed cases, and 30,400 that have tested negative, out of a population of 95.5 million. Why are we so darn slow?
A few points.
I went and found an article on this, and all the ones near the top of the search page were from Vietnam sources. I didn't dig very deep on this yet, but it's curious that more "traditional" news sources don't appear to be covering it.
How accurate is the test, and how do you know you can trust whoever is providing that figure for you?
We're slow because we've put too much government red tape in between "idea" and "idea realized." There's no question we have the resources in this country to be "first" at pretty much whatever we want, but government tends to get in the way far too often.
my only problem with the abbott assay is their use of a single-sample platform. why not make it just a little more high-throughput? like 8 samples, even?
We have a test that gives results in about 20 minutes. We haven't been slow. Our response has been lightning fast.
5 minutes is 4x faster than the best we have now. Last month it took 2 days.
I pray you are correct.
I'm worried that the mortality rate has inched up rather than down. We were at 1.3% and now at 1.6%. If they get this test rolling it will most definitely push that down.
NYC is the odd out, with a very high rate. CA and TX are well below 1% and more in line with the flu (0.10%).
I still back my prediction that it will end up at about .50% or less.
Testing has been extremely slow to ramp up. US and Korea got their first patient on the same day. Korea started cleverly targeted mass testing (yes, you can't test everybody), US did not. Results are very different today.
Not that improvements and more testing now don't help, they do, but the opportunity to greatly minimize the impact of this virus was missed early on.
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