Posted on 01/23/2022 9:25:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I wasn’t able to track down any information from test manufacturer Roche Diagnostics or the FDA about what happens when the tests are exposed to extreme temperatures, but I did find a paper at the Journal of Clinical Virology that found “Impaired performance of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests at elevated and low temperatures”:
In summary, elevated temperatures impair sensitivity, whereas low temperatures impair specificity of SARS-CoV-2 Ag-RDTs [antigen detection rapid diagnostic test]. Consequences may include false-negative test results at clinically relevant virus concentrations compatible with transmission and false-positive results entailing unwarranted quarantine assignments. Storage and operation of SARS-CoV-2 Ag-RDTs at recommended conditions is essential for successful usage during the pandemic.
Another Biden cluster f*ck
Everything's free in America
For a small fee in America.
America by Leonard Bernstein in West Side Story
And in the summer they can sit in a hot mailbox for days if the people aren’t home, on vacation, etc.
With the closing of retail stores by pro-internet people (not me) many things sit in a mail truck while the employee smokes a joint, flirts with someone, has a long lunch, and then delivers to a freezing cold (or direct sunlight hot) mail box outside. For hours and hours until you look inside. Especially for apartment buildings.
Were these manufactured in China.
Do like some others. Order them and pitch them in the wheely bin once they arrive. Your tax dollars so you can pitch them if you want. Or, sell them to folks that “just have to know!!!!”.
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“With the closing of retail stores by pro-internet people (not me) “
Capacitor for my pool pump:
Pinch-A-Penny $39.95
On-line $3.98 including shipping
There’s always gonna be some part of the country that’s outside “proper” storage bounds. Living in Tucson which is on the high side for almost everything that has storage advice 9 to 10 months a year I’ve found most things are fine. It can do a couple hours, it’s weeks that messes stuff up.
Yes of course they were in order for hunter to get his commission.
Not just in summer. It's been 65 degrees where I am. A half hour in the sun and the car's at 95. (https://goodcalculators.com/inside-car-temperature-calculator/)
I imagine tests shipped to drug stores have also been exposed to temperatures outside the given storage range.
See? Central planning works, when those in charge are our betters.
Yes, it’s a wonderful world now. You’re mostly right.
Sink mat, supplement capsules, shoe orthotics and many more items available online for less-—or only place left to get them.
I tried to get one of those coffee mug warmers with a coil and a cord. They sent one about 9 inches long. Never specified. Finally got another elsewhere that fits in mug.
Before Amazon finally added description lines for most, not all, items, I got probably three or four “books” about Bob Dylan that were 15-30 pages long booklets. Now I watch for that line (only added after complaints, I’m sure) where Amazon says 4 by 6 inch book or 7 by 9 inch. And 280 pages or 14 pages.
No worries. It was only -20 here not to long ago.
Does that make it show a positive?
Caveat Emptor.
Especially online.
It is said that the swabs have nanoparticles on the tips to be deposited near your brain stem.
If these are harmless swabs, why can’t they be frozen?
It sounds to me that there is technology here, at nanoscale, too small to see, that can’t take cold or heat.
I think they mean for a long period of time.
I’m tired of being taxed to pay for freeloaders to get things from the government.
The mistake here is to assume any of this is scientific or logical.
I believe in “paying it forward”.
Send them to Santa Claus in North Pole, Alaska.
The current temperature there is 6 degrees.
Then they won’t do anything, but remember—it is the thought that counts!
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