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i am really torn on this
i want covid over and i want a return on my odx outlay. i hate wishing the pandemic to continue to get my cash back.
personally i think we will have it bad until at least spring. so hopefully loads more testing. the worry is the seeming lack of urgency with colin the caterpillart
“i still think they need to get some of that gov contract and set themselves up”
With test and trace being branded an eye watering waste of money, and Sunak trumpeting his post-covid budget, how much appetite do you think there is in the DHSC to spend anything with Omega when they have 325m tests in storage?
tbh i can only see odx selling to uk/eu/usa -... Only I be very if we only sold to these..
tbh i can only see odx selling to uk/eu/usa - from a price point of view. the stuff they want to sell in china will sell a few and get reverse engineered and then made cheaper over there. I would question price for africa as well. stuff made in this country tends to be pricier than a lot of other places in the world.
one would think uk would be their best and easiest market. i see they are potentially in frankfurt in november - but who knows what eu competition is like.
usa they are going for pro use when really they should have been going for self test
i still think they need to get some of that gov contract and set themselves up - financially and reputation wise
Computer909 almost noone can compete in India. There's even a letter floating around somewhere where a load of clinicians found out the COGS for a Cepheid test and used it to put pressure on them to discount even further. It also takes about a year to register a product there. Nightmare
"Who is leading up the marketing of COVID tests at ODX as this may be the No 1 problem?"
John Bannister is responsible for the commercials of the Covid test, and he's swanning about in Kenya this week
Colin has previously stated that India was not a market that Omega could compete in, due to costs
Usually I am asking for help with dealing with the FDA not the other way around!
Hopefully they hire Gravy onto their marketing team. His picture of a pallet of brown boxes had everyone 'sold' on here
;-)
Never mind FDA approval, Lumira DX have just received emergency approval in India. ODX has a long history/relationship with India including an Indian office so are they going for this? If not they should be. Who is leading up the marketing of COVID tests at ODX as this may be the No 1 problem? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumiradx-receives-approval-for-its-covid-19-antigen-test-for-use-in-india-301404248.html?tc=eml_cleartime
"Just an observation that was missing from your update."
every single time FDA has been mentioned here over the last 6 months, it is always EUA, as that is what they are giving out in relation to LFT authorisations.
6 months later, you just decided it was worth mentioning :)
Some emergency !
Just an observation that was missing from your update. I would hate to think others might have thought it was anything other than emergency use.
"emergency use"
I hope you are not under some impression that ODX/Mologic's submission is any different ?
"Omega Diagnostics Requests FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Rapid Covid-19 Test"
was the title of the RNS-non on the 2nd July.
Emergency use.
I note that as well as Celltrion test, another test was approved for home use in the USA on the 21st oct.
https://www.fda.gov/media/147247/download
"Too many assumptions"
Take it up with the FDA, it's their statement. And take it up with ODX, its their decision to go with professional use for which they are still waiting for approval.
Too many assumptions there Twatty..as in all your posts.
2.years, 2,377 negative posts all aimed at one company?????
Get a life.
From the full press release:-
"Additionally, FDA announced it has authorized another over-the-counter rapid antigen test. FDA has granted an emergency use authorization to Celltrion Diatrust for its COVID-19 Home Ag Test for over-the-counter single-use testing for symptomatic adults and over-the-counter serial testing for all adults. This brings another easy-to-use rapid COVID-19 test to market, the tenth over-the-counter test FDA has authorized. This means that when people go to their pharmacy or a store to buy a test they can take at home, they will soon have an additional option..... They follow President Biden’s recent announcement to quadruple supply of at-home tests by the end of the year by investing a total of $3 billion in rapid testing – up to 200 million at-home tests per month by the end of the year."
So there are 10 home use tests authorised by the FDA, which will fulfil a demand of up to 200M units a month.
Mologic/visitect submission to the FDA is for EUA for professional use, not home use
https://twitter.com/fdadeviceinfo/status/1452709556153462788?s=21