Wait a minute here. The media has been complaining that there was only going to be 5000 of these test kits sent out in the USA in the beginning. I guess we can’t believe our media can we?
“the massive diagnostic effort under way in the U.S.”
If that’s a joke it’s not very funny.
The testing disaster is a national scandal and will have very unfortunate consequences.
what a great acquisition by Abbott Labs of Alere, who actually developed ID NOW - they are going to make a ton of money.
Lab testing is very lucrative - large companies like Amazon are already building their own diagnostic testing labs, the market for Abbott, BD, Roche, etc will be yuge
Why is Abbott the only company making them? Why aren’t we seeing press conferences like with the ventilators so that any capable company are making these things all over the country 24/7?
If I own a restaurant, sports franchise, mall, etc. make it simple for me to buy them and let me have the most popular spot in town and get rid of this virus in a heartbeart.
So far the dems haven’t been able to see this massive achilles heel in Trump’s plan. But if we re-open and people are dying and you can’t get easily tested, then all bets are off come November.
It’s April 14, 2020. Does your Governor know where your Covid-19 tests are?
330,500,000 citizens / 50,000 tests manufactured per day = 6610 days, or 18 years to manufacture enough tests to test each citizen once.
If I understand correctly, this is 566,000 devices...each device is equipped with ~10 test cartridges, which would result in over 5.5 million tests. I could be wrong, but that’s my understanding.
Ahhh.... our President is ahead of the media and the Dems once again. Perfection.
Well, it’s about time. So more contacts can be traced, and epidemiologists will have a clearer picture of what’s going on. And we can shut the epidemic down faster and free up more economic activity.
If it weren’t done this way, the disease itself would shut more economic activity down for a longer duration.
i’ve heard that the abbot test is, to put it politely, inaccurate.
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.
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.