Do you know what the sensitivity and specificity are for this test?
This is a game changer - which came a lot sooner than I had expected. https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/product-and-innovation/detect-covid-19-in-as-little-as-5-minutes.html … (and yes - this is a diagnostic test, not a serology test)https://twitter.com/FayCortez/status/1243680074907385860 …
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This is a really cool technology, but I wish people would stop quoting the "five minute" time as that is a best-case scenario, and likely to be rare. The more relevant time is 13 minutes to a negative result. Still really impressive, to be clear!
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Devil’s advocate 1 unit = 288 tests/day max with 5 minute results each. Typical molecular test facility 800-1000 tests/day, 4-10 hours results turn around.
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Thank you for clarifying re: diagnostic vs. serology — as a layperson, I wasn’t sure based on Abbott’s release. Hope they can roll it out fast!
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According to Bloomberg, 50,000 released on April 1.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/abbott-launches-5-minute-covid-19-test-for-use-almost-anywhere …
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https://www.fda.gov/media/136315/download … similar to cepheid Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2
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In contrary to Abbott, Xpert is an optimized and automatized RT-PCR reaction. No idea of what makes it different to the common one.
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Game changer!
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Developing countries?
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I know -- agreements must be reached in the style of GAVI once production has been scaled!
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