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ABBOTT LAUNCHES MOLECULAR POINT-OF-CARE TEST TO DETECT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS IN AS LITTLE AS FIVE MINUTES
Abbot ^ | March 27, 2020 | n.a.

Posted on 03/27/2020 11:20:20 PM PDT by 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

(Excerpt) Read more at abbott.mediaroom.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abbott; abbottlabs; chinavirustest; chinesevirus; coronavirus; coronavirusmeds; covid19; idnow; testing
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1 posted on 03/27/2020 11:20:20 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Good news

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


2 posted on 03/27/2020 11:34:57 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Ken H

Great news!!!!


3 posted on 03/27/2020 11:38:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: sheehan

It should play the Jeopardy theme while the test runs.


4 posted on 03/27/2020 11:40:22 PM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: Ken H
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.
5 posted on 03/27/2020 11:41:34 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: sheehan

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.


6 posted on 03/27/2020 11:45:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Chgogal

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


7 posted on 03/28/2020 12:04:35 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: Ken H
  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.
8 posted on 03/28/2020 12:09:52 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Ken H

BUMP


9 posted on 03/28/2020 12:13:25 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Ken H

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.


10 posted on 03/28/2020 12:28:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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11 posted on 03/28/2020 12:32:33 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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:)

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


12 posted on 03/28/2020 12:36:19 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Ken H
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.

13 posted on 03/28/2020 12:52:16 AM PDT by Daaave ("You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.")
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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.


14 posted on 03/28/2020 12:59:14 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

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


15 posted on 03/28/2020 1:04:23 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Jerry...Jerry...Jerry...)
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To: Ken H

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.


16 posted on 03/28/2020 3:39:47 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Maurice Tift

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


17 posted on 03/28/2020 3:52:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Ken H

Great news!!!


18 posted on 03/28/2020 3:53:45 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Ken H

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.


19 posted on 03/28/2020 4:40:23 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: Ken H

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


20 posted on 03/28/2020 5:05:50 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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