Posted on 03/26/2020 9:04:22 PM PDT by Ken H
Test to be validated this week, then made available to healthcare workers and general public
Millions of 15-minute home coronavirus tests are set to be available on the high street or for Amazon delivery to people self-isolating, according to Public Health England (PHE), in a move that could restore many people’s lives to a semblance of pre-lockdown normality.
Prof Sharon Peacock, the director of the national infection service at PHE, told MPs on the science and technology committee that mass testing in the UK would be possible within days, saying evaluation of the fingerprick tests should be completed this week. The government later took a more cautious line, saying that the tests would not be available so quickly.
The UK government has bought 3.5m tests – which reveal whether someone has had the virus and is therefore thought to have some immunity – and is ordering millions more, it has said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Mailing stool samples to Nancy Pelosi?
Why isn’t the US testing millions?
I know someone with symptoms who was told they only test people who are so severe that they have to be admitted to the hospital.
This is not the way it should be. At the very least, anyone with symptoms - and those close to them - should be tested in order to determine whether they should isolate, and whether special therapies are appropriate.
Ideally, everybody should be tested, to find out in advance who has the virus - then have them isolate for two weeks, while letting everybody else go back to work.
The bureaucrats really dropped the ball on testing in the US. Hopefully we’ll finally be able to do mass testing by this fall, if the virus reappears.
If this thing the Brits have come up with can tell who’s got immunity, it would be a tremendous help, especially for health care workers and first responders.
if you do, poke holes in the can so it can breath on the way
I assume the tests are made by Biomerica which just shipped some overseas. 10 minute tes for $10. They have not been permitted to distribute them in the US, where they are made.
“So 500,000 people have been admitted to the hospitals? Because that is how many test have been done.”
I only know what they told my friend. They said this is state policy - it’s a small western state.
My daughter in health care was told early on tests were very scarce. More and more people are being tested so it seems more tests are now available. The county I live in just announced that starting next week anyone who feels a need to be tested will be, and I am pretty sure they said there would be no charge either. They made a point to say even if you have no symptoms you can be tested.
heck I live in rural southern Missouri ...where they still have dirt roads....I can drive 10 minutes tomorrow and get tested in a outdoor venue... what heck is wrong with everyone ...who pays for these test and medicine ...every one relax try praying reading your bible...go squirrel hunting with your best dog..relax
The first tests were from the WHO. They were very inaccurate and gave many false positives and negatives. The US developed alternatives amazingly quickly. Production came in similar record setting time. The number of tests available and tests given have increased exponentially over the last handful of days.
Everything Ivecread says there was were major screwups by CDC and bureaucratic turf wars and obstacles out of CDC and FDA that slowed the rollout of testing in the US. This has been reported and well documented by media and commentators across the ideological spectrum. In fact , liberal media has been less forthcoming about these screwups because they reflect badly on federal bureaucrats and our regulatory regime
The real news is that Trump cut through the existing red tape in days.
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