ABBOTT LAUNCHES MOLECULAR POINT-OF-CARE TEST TO DETECT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS IN AS LITTLE AS FIVE MINUTES

Abbot ^ | March 27, 2020 | n.a.

[Ken H]

- The Abbott ID NOW™ COVID-19 test brings rapid testing to the front lines

- Test to run on Abbott's point-of-care ID NOW platform - a portable instrument that can be deployed where testing is needed most

- ID NOW has the largest molecular point-of-care installed base in the U.S. and is available in a wide range of healthcare settings

- Abbott will be making ID NOW COVID-19 tests available next week and expects to ramp up manufacturing to deliver 50,000 tests per day

- This is the company's second test to receive Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA for COVID-19 detection; combined, Abbott expects to produce about 5 million tests per month

[sheehan]

Good news

Abbott is a great company, ID Now is also used to test for influenza

[Chgogal]

Great news!!!!

[Ken H]

It should play the Jeopardy theme while the test runs.

[Chgogal]

It would be great if you could go to a restaurant and or grocery store and know the employees were not suffering from the Wuhan Flu. The restaurant business would pick up immediately.

[Jeff Chandler]

I used to deliver freight to the Abbott Labs baby formula factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, next to the Frito Lay factory and across the highway from a critical location in my exciting crime thriller, Collateral Crimes (available on Amazon).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997539518

What was I talking about? Oh, yeah.

They were the strictest customers ever when it came to sanitation. They took food safety quite seriously.

[newzjunkey]

Can those employees get the same tests run on every customer before they come into contact with them?

[Maurice Tift]

  I was just talking to my doctor yesterday and he was talking about the test results taking 5 or 6 days. With a fast test, people could start treatment immediately with the hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulfate... or some other combo.... and that would pretty much end the crisis.

[Rumplemeyer]

BUMP

[dp0622]

ABBOTT LAUNCHES MOLECULAR POINT-OF-CARE TEST TO DETECT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS IN AS LITTLE AS FIVE MINUTES...

This is good news.

Abbott’s always been the brains.

Costello is Worthless.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[dp0622]

:)

I love the phone booth scene where he stats singing opera with the lady :)

[Daaave]

When I was in high school in Illinois, my mom worked at Abbot Labs. One time she gave me several feet of rubber tubing and a huge needle.

Another relative works in pharmaceuticals. Abbots was/is her client. This relative used to give us over the counter products and mugs and ink pens, etc. I loved the freebies and missed them when she went to a different company.

[outofsalt]

Years ago Nancy Pelosi’s democrats banned marketing to healthcare workers; food, “over the counter products and mugs and ink pens, etc” to prevent undue influence. They still allowed contributions to politicians and PACs.

[Prince of Space]

One of my neighbors works in IT at at the Frito Lay factory. I’ll have to check out your book.

[Dixie Yooper]

We need something like this for anyone working or going back to work. If they can make billions of them, inexpensively, everyone can test daily before leaving their home.

[mewzilla]

It’ll end the crisis if patients self-quarantine while taking the meds and until no longer infectious.

[WildHighlander57]

Great news!!!

[Engedi]

It was on Fox news this morning. Pretty neat device. You take the swab sample either from throat or nose and insert in the machine and 5-10min later voila. Results. They are going out to major cities with highest cases for now then will go out to doctor’s office down the road.

[mosesdapoet]

Any chance of posting a picture of the instrument Abbot is announcing ? It would complement your posting.