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You really have no clue.
For each fecking approval knob!!
I’ll bid you higher sir....
PP, you mean the 20% rise Safy the pro has predicted?
confirmation of £1m PCR orders + more PCR sales + more reg / country approvals + CE marking extension + US DOD Pathogen orders + AIHL test orders + HCV ID test orders + POC CE / approvals / orders....sound investable?
Just a matter of time for our well deserved day in the sun.
PP
On radio 5 about 10mins ago & so frustrating hearing how good the test is when we know throughput is garbage.
Pleased DB didn’t state UK was in 3 areas targeting, if so, this would be concerning and damaging to expected rev stream, but considering not, it’s more a flippin irritant to the ‘enlightened’!
Still positive.
PP
One of the new tests is made by DnaNudge, a company that analyses people’s DNA from saliva in order to sell them a wristband and smartphone app that will “nudge” them towards healthy food choices. “We’re all different because our genetic make-up is different, in fact your DNA is unique to you. This genetic code also determines which foods are good or bad for us,” says its website.
Their Covid-19 test, using nasal swabs, will be rolled out across NHS hospitals from September. The company is supplying 5,000 “Nudgeboxes” that process the tests, up to 15 a day, with the aim to provide 5.8m tests in the coming months, said the Department for Health and Social Care. The boxes have already been trialled in eight London hospitals.
15 tests per box per day at £28 a pop. British corruption at its very best. If this happened in any other country there would be uproar. And the brits would be the first to say how corrupt those countries are.
DNA Nudge is just not fit for purpose when you think about it, not in airports, not in schools, not in large work places, not for cruise ships due to each test being over an hour and the amount of people. You would need tens of the mini pcr machines.
@Ethio or ST
If you read this thread post it on the ODX board, im knackered after today.
This is just fecked up that its got headlines where the ONLY difference to a PCR machine is that its err i cant think of anything. There are PCR machines in the market that are not even that big. So whats the difference between a sample getting loaded into a test for PCR and this?
While im in a commenting mood, David Budd I am sure you read this at times, I sincerely hope you are working all hours on the POC device with the 8mill. Or are we missing the boat again, best product but cant get in as contracts are signed. I hope you really are in communication with the UK healthcare with the PCR test and we get a mention in the news/rns from GDR and you pull this rabbit out the hat! The end of the year for POC will not be good enough in the fast pace of the covid testing market.
Safy, I cant beleive that the UK gov has bought 5000 of the nudge machines and this is todays head lines on covid in the Uk. So each test takes 1 hour. If you have them in a care home you would want to test visitors, so if 2 of you go you need to wait 2 hours before both can be in, max 8 visitors per home a day (meal times/bed time/change time) I agree with your comment, that we have a machine that can test 96 in 90 mins around 1 min a test. Glad you posted that Vid as I was starting to get a bit down on this investment. What da muck is Hann**** thinking
Also anyone who knows anything about consumer electronics, new technology takes a long long time to validate.
Does anyone remember Apple Antenna Gate, bendy phones, software bugs and issues, screen problems with the new X models, phones getting bricked on updates, poor wifi... they can get these machines out, but in a mass testing live environment there is no guarantee they'll work 100% all the time.
But its still a great invention. Can't take anything away from that at all.
Also for mass screenings they do pool tests now, USA does them, Quest has FDA approval for it. India do them too.
For those who dont know what pool testing is, why test 20-30 people individually when they dont have any symptoms, just load up all the samples into one test and see if any come out positive. If not 1 test rules out 20-30 people and in the same amount of time it takes to do 1 test. And if there is a positive then you just test all those people individually.
Im sure this government is inept and possibly corrupt too.
Its just a POC test, the magic doesnt happen in the blue cartridge they supply. The blue cartridge goes into a mini PCR machine. WTF!! and the mini PCR machine is TINY, i wonder how many tests it can do in 90 minutes... Not a lot is there answer
https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-test-that-takes-90-mins-described-as-an-entire-laboratory-in-a-printer-cartridge-12041483
Yes its impressive, but its just a fancy £28 per test POC test. Whereas the PCR can load up at £5-6 a test give or take a quid or two and do 96 at once in the same time.
I can see a place for these tests, but they are not a replacement for PCR. Definitely not.