[BBell]

I hope they are successful.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Godspeed to them.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Fido969]

Why does “race” have to be the topic of every discussion today?

Ohhh.... nevermind.

[George from New England]

The F word.

‘Faster’ will likely lead to ‘Falser’ ...

False results very much add to the problem.

[a fool in paradise]

What is the hazmat disposal for the test strips? You will be obtaining “body fluids” of a potentially infectious nature.

[Pearls Before Swine]

They must have a target density of virons that they hope to detect. That in turn will determine how early in the disease they can detect infection, and at what point false negatives (missing early stage disease) become unlikely.

If the test is quick, that’s good. But, if the test only works when people are pretty far along, it may just buy a few days of safety.

I hope it works, and that it works reliably and early!

[Christie at the beach]

Very appreciative of their work. God Bless them.

[Grampa Dave]

Barrack EObolabama, Holder, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and the ACLU will try to ban this test if developed as racists and profiling.

[SgtHooper]

No need to administer it to liberals and the GOPe—they’re all pricks!

[null and void]

In Africa, they'll use the same lancet all day.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...