FDA OK's 45 min. POC Test !!!!

[miamianne67]

California based Cepheid delivers results in @ 45 minutes....on the spot.  It works on any of the companies 23,000 automated GeneXpert Systems worldwide, of which 5k are in the US. The systems are already being used to test for HIV and TB.

No specialty training is needed to operate them and they can run round the clock !!!

[thought013]

Presumably this potentially severely reduces BL's need to test and Opko's revenue. So depending on how many are actually used/available, great for human kind, bad for Opko's business. If we could only do the same!

[icemandios]

Did somebody hijack your ID? Where's the link? What kind of test is it?

I am actually beginning to wonder if more than a few of us are going, or have gone, into mental shutdown.

Everybody. Breath. In through the nose for a count of 4. Hold for a count of 2. Let it out. Rest. In is from the belly not the chest. Out is strangely done by expanding the chest. (If you wish to go Ooom, it can't hurt).

[icemandios]

There are 2 kinds of tests. Based upon the absence of any useful info in this thread, there are 2 kinds of tests. One is by swabs and a complex process as is known a PCR. The other is a blood test which detects, so far, all past and present corona signatures.

The first is what is being used to take a snapshot (think short info) of the px's current status.

The second includes the px's current, but also past, infection with everything from pneumonia, flu, to the common cold. All of which are corona viruses.

So, as far as it goes, do you want to get excited if you test positive on the one test, probably a serological (blood finger stick test), or do you want to get excited by the PCR test which looks at your current status specifically about your "snap shot" of the state of affairs?

I suggest the latter is the least discommoding. But it is only revealing where you are as of when the sample was submitted.

If you are one of the products of this modern "education system," you might go forward believing you have escaped the "bullet." If you are a dufus who gets their news from Facebook or any of most of the other social media, you might think you have "passed the exam." And then go out a lick a doorknob.

While this pandemic is serious, there has never been one that has the potential for global collapse. It's not so much about how many people die as it is about how much global wealth has been, and will be, destroyed. Poverty may well be the consequence, and we all know what poverty brings to the table. Or, we should.

Instead of the fatality ratio compared to other scourges, such as the Spanish Flu, Ebola, etc, we might actually want to think about the consequences to global prosperity vs the above mentioned.

How many Gates Foundations might it take to restore the December 2019 status of the global economy if this shit goes on?

Bottom line............there has to be a new vaccine. Everything else is just putting out the current wildfire, while others are soon to burn. FWIW