Posted on 04/14/2020 6:10:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In less than a month, Abbott Laboratories has shipped 566,000 of its highly touted “rapid” molecular tests for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 to all 50 U.S. states.
The effort to get the ID NOW COVID-19 test to doctor’s offices, urgent care centers and temporary testing sites like drive-thru parking lot locations is a snapshot into the massive diagnostic effort under way in the U.S. Abbott’s ID NOW COVID-19 test can deliver “positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.”
The test, hailed by Donald Trump from the White House and praised by commercial companies like drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance, was granted the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s “emergency use authorization” less than three weeks ago amid a growing number of agency approvals for more rapid molecular “point-of-care” diagnostic tests that can be used in temporary screening locations, doctor’s office labs and nursing homes to detect the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 within a half hour.
The FDA has escalated approvals of rapid “point-of-care” diagnostics made by other companies including Mesa Biotech and Cepheid which are also ramping up production to meet unprecedented demand. In Abbott’s case, however, the company has a much broader global presence than the smaller biotech firms.
“Through Saturday, April 11, we have shipped 566,000 of our rapid ID NOW tests to all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the Pacific Islands,” Abbott said in a statement. “The majority of these tests have been sent to outbreak hotspots and we've asked that customers prioritize front-line health care workers and first responders. We're currently manufacturing 50,000 tests per day, plan to increase ID NOW manufacturing capacity to 2 million tests a month by June and are working to expand beyond that.”
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RE: Ain’t got a link - I work for U of Md. I got an email saying no
Abbott gear because of false negativ.
Is the email confidential and only for the University of Maryland system? If not, you can do us all a favor by posting the contents of the email here.
My personal opinion is this email should *NOT* BE confidential as this information (if true) is too vital for the rest of America who depend on such test to not know
Yep, I get it...got it from the horse’s mouth (Abbott)...lots of test kits that go into “M2000” machines going out now. I don’t use main stream media for anything requiring factual information...I worked a technical position at a TV station for 25 years...lots of “crud”/bad “facts” come out of newsrooms. Like not knowing the difference between a testing machine and a test kit that goes in the machine. Don’t even get me started on the news media and aviation or guns! Clueless!
https://www.molecular.abbott/us/en/products/instrumentation/m2000-realtime-system
i’ve heard that the abbot test is, to put it politely, inaccurate.
Quoting right from the article (you can scroll back up and read it yourself):
“The majority of these tests have been sent to outbreak hotspots and we've asked that customers prioritize front-line health care workers and first responders. We're currently manufacturing 50,000 tests per day, plan to increase ID NOW manufacturing capacity to 2 million tests a month by June and are working to expand beyond that.”<\i>
Now that I've highlighted and underlined the number, do you still see 50 million per day, or 50 thousand per day?
So once they've ramped up to manufacturing 2 million tests per month:
330,500,000 citizens / 2,000,000 tests/month = 165.25 months, or 13.77 years to test us all once. And this is why they've "asked that customers prioritize front-line health care workers and first responders." (another quote right from the article you can scroll back and read for yourself)
We're not all getting tested, not any time soon anyway.
Did they send the lab people to go along with the tests.
13 minutes per test.
That’s 3.5 per hour. Or about 25 per shift.
That’s going to take some machines and people to manage.
There are always limitations on a process.
Re: 33
Knock off the profanity.
You’re about three weeks behind on your press conferences.
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I’ve seen every minute of every press conference.
And yet I’m finding I’m finding out very important info from you rather than Trump.
My question still stands:
We were pummeled (justifiably) with press conferences to talk about ventilators.
I think Trump could have put the nation at tremendous ease if the same effort was put into pushing testing AND telling us about it.
I want to be tripping over these machines as I walk down the street there are so many of them.
Let me ask you this:
What would you have preferred to hear weeks ago at a press conference?
1.Everyone will be getting $1200.00. (approx. $300 billion)
or
2. We are spending $300,000,000 billion dollars on making enough machines and everything else required to test everyone in the country by the end of April. You will be able to go to school, the mall, or an NHL game with complete piece of mind.
I think Of Trump as someone who tells me why we can do something rather than why we can’t do something. On this issue I am disappointed in him.
330,500,000 citizens / 2,000,000 tests/month = 165.25 months, or 13.77 years to test us all once. And this is why they've “asked that customers prioritize front-line health care workers and first responders.” (another quote right from the article you can scroll back and read for yourself)
We're not all getting tested, not any time soon anyway.
As at today they are producing 50,000 testing kits every single day that makes it 1.5 million tests a month. That is at right now not in June or July.
2. The US has already conducted 3.1 million tests. That is vastly more than any other country on the planet. It's not like the US only started testing today.
3. In addition to the tests mention in this article, Abbott Labs is also making this portable rapid diagnostic testing equipment that carries out 4 tests per hour. That equipment was shown on Tucker Carlson a couple of nights ago right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiCwYhZnGo
4. Abbott Labs is just one one company making coronavirus testing equipment. There are at least 10 more firms that I have seen mentioned in the news if not more. that are currently making coronavirus testing equipment
And and soon everyone who needs a test will get it.
You talk like every single person in the 330 population USA has to have a test. THEY DON'T.
Has everyone in the US had an AIDS test for example despite AIDS having been around for close to 40 years? Of course not!
Like any other disease, you get tested when you show symptoms I don't see why hundreds of millions of extremely healthy young men and women should go rushing to hospitals for coronavirus tests.
It's 566,000 test cartridges. The cartridge needs to be inserted into a test machine, which fortunately there are thousands of.
Bingo. Surprised the moderators allowed an F bomb on the site. Posting for over 15 years on site and don’t recall many of those showing up
From their press release, they are expanding test production for both their small machine, and the big hospital-lab machine
We’re currently manufacturing 50,000 tests per day, plan to increase ID NOW manufacturing capacity to 2 million tests a month by June and are working to expand beyond that.
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A rapid test is one part of the solution, not the only one. Our m2000 RealTime molecular laboratory instrument, for example, can run 470 tests a day and give results in about 6.5 hours. Importantly, we’re now able to produce 1 million tests a week for our m2000 laboratory system. To date, we’ve shipped nearly 1 million tests to customers across the U.S. and have begun to ship tests to other countries around the world.
Good summary re testing and reality of everyone being tested.
We can’t get 100 % of the eligible population to vote. I doubt we will get people with no symptoms taking this.
To me people with underlying conditions should be first in line and notified of the importance of testing.
Minus those who just pay cash we should have the means by hospitals or Medicare/Medicaid to identify those.
RE: i’ve heard that the abbot test is, to put it politely, inaccurate.
I’ve also heard that Hydroxychloroquine is unproven for treating Covid-19.
Can you please cite your source for this information?
Inaccurate compared to what? The current testing methods we use today?
Kindly cite your source so that we can verify if what you hard abut Abbott is, to put it politely, accurate.
sorry. confidential source. anyway just one data point. i could be completely off. but you’ll soon see it from many sources if the test proves to be not very good.
i’m just sorry that Trump is being mislead, once again.
RE: i’m just sorry that Trump is being mislead, once again.
How can you conclude that when we can’t even gauge the reliability of your confidential source?
oh i trust my source. i wouldn’t have said a thing here, but i just don’t want good patients and doctors hurt. poor testing is extremely damaging on all levels from the individual up to the nation.
What we need is a scientific comparison of Abbott’s machines with the standard slower methods of testing to determine which ones are more accurate.
As it stands now, we can’t make head or tail of how correct the assessment of this person you trust is without being presented with any reliable data.
there’s is absolutely no doubt that pcr is the gold standard in virology testing.
and your suggested method is the best way to validate new tests, imo.
look, i can at least suggest, although i hate it when others do this to me, that you can go take a close look at the company. what and how have they been doing lately in bringing up new testing. we’re talking about a very big co here.
well, i’m going to shut up now. again this is basically one data point in time. i could be wrong. i hope i am.
The antibody test is what we need more of now, and Abbott announced widespread availability of it’s antibody test today:
Need an at-home ‘finger stick” antibody test for COVID-19 like a blood glucose test.
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