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“As for ODX, 100,000 by end of this month“
Machinery now set up to produce 500,000 per week as per recent tweets. The road to 2,000,000 continues!
"You clearly don't know what your talking about. The UKRTC does not need to implement security protocols. There is of course an issue with data landing on 3rd party servers but that's why the gov dropped the first app they developed."
@MIKODX wasn't talking about the UK-RTC - he was talking about the NHS Track & Trace app that will be linked to antibody testing.
MIKODX
"Layers upon layers of security protocols will have to be implemented, to protect patient medical information."
You clearly don't know what your talking about. The UKRTC does not need to implement security protocols. There is of course an issue with data landing on 3rd party servers but that's why the gov dropped the first app they developed.
Why MHRA are taking this long to approve a test kits that has done all the requested processes is beyond me.
This gov is useless
People in desperate need cannot get tested.
They have had since FEB to get things ready and they have not.
Other countries have done much better with testing
Companies like GDR, with excellent tests cannot get contracts when they could help solve the testing problem
Does the MHRA know we're in a pandemic????? Ulster uni ease of use test was completed 3 weeks ago.
As for ODX, 100,000 by end of this month. where are we with that and any news from India?
MIKODX.....thank you! Finally someone else that appears to understand the logistics behind this level of mass testing. Notwithstanding the CE marking, MHRA approval and any other approval....there is still the small matter of ensuring that the infrastructure behind mass testing is robust. As MIK quite rightly states, it isn't just as easy as manufacturing millions of lateral flow tests and distributing them without any foresight into how the data is gathered and processes.
It has to be a fool proof, watertight operation because as we've seen already, the general public can't be trusted to follow simple instructions when it comes to distancing, numbers in households, quarantining, face-coverings etc. I believe this is the last shot for the UK's testing program, so it has to be effective, manageable and secure...
"Integrating software into antibody and antigen tests, is not as easy as it sounds. The software and coding has to be created and tested, patients medical records will be updated to a central database. Layers upon layers of security protocols will have to be implemented, to protect patient medical information. Not an easy task and certainly not the same as scanning the barcode off a tin of beans."
Actually, technically it's not that difficult as they wouldn't be starting from scratch. NHS Digital has the MESH and Summary Care Records systems in place already. What is needed is the connection between the testing centres/app and MESH. That should be straighforward, as there is a established process to put that in palce.
However, we're working with the likes of SERCO and Sitel, and the egregious Dildo Harding, so they probably won't want to use the existing, established and robust systems but to charge the government ££££millions for a bespoke system that won't actually work...
Integrating software into antibody and antigen tests, is not as easy as it sounds. The software and coding has to be created and tested, patients medical records will be updated to a central database. Layers upon layers of security protocols will have to be implemented, to protect patient medical information. Not an easy task and certainly not the same as scanning the barcode off a tin of beans.
That is not the reason, anyone who knows anything about databases can tell you, reading a barcode through an app is super easy.
Amazon do it by the hundreds of millions daily. Every single supermarket does it billions of times daily. Its trivial.
I dont think it's MHRA that is delaying this. The tests have already been approved for professional and is being distributed already. They are probably having teething problems trying to tie the test in with the app. This isn't just a simple straight forward test, it comes with software that reads the barcodes of the tests and then updates results to a database. Not an easy thing to do, which will take time.