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The Odx POC test has nothing to do with mologic nor in this article.
Odx have supplied mologic with their Elisa test ability which has been submitted to public health England. It quotes Elisa tests are being used in the article but these might be others? Either way the POC work continues and the Elisa is still trying to be validated.
From my understanding ODX had an agreement with mologic to supply materials and help for the mologic test which is ELISA (lab based analysis) ODX are still working with the consortium for home based pregnancy style test. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes it was a long article , luckily Odx not mentioned. To me this is turning into a real life hare and the tortoise story. Guess who the tortoise is :)
Really long and interesting article;
Is the Elisa test anything to do with Odx? And then the mologic claim around £1 million to do with their POC test which we know isn’t good enough? Big and long article, just shows how hard it is to achieve
Of the tests currently in use in the UK, the Eurominium EuroImmun IGg ELISA test has been found by one study to be just 67 per cent sensitive, the Roche test's accuracy ranged between 75 and 93.3 per cent and Abbott's test averaged 93-94 per cent.
Laboratory tests, often carried out on a machine called an ELISA, are generally most accurate tests available.
They work by blood samples being collected from a patient by a qualified medical professional and then being sent to the lab.
Of the tests currently in use in the UK, the Eurominium EuroImmun IGg ELISA test has been found by one study to be just 67 per cent sensitive, the Roche test's accuracy ranged between 75 and 93.3 per cent and Abbott's test averaged 93-94 per cent.
For clarification:
"The arrangement with Mologic is separate from, and additional to, the announcement made by the Company on 9 April 2020 relating to the UK Rapid Test Consortium (RTC), which is to jointly develop and manufacture a Point-of-care COVID-19 lateral flow antibody test which could be used 'at-home' and which will be manufactured in Omega's Alva facility in Scotland. Mologic's COVID-19 ELISA diagnostic test is also an antibody test but will be used on patient samples sent by hospitals or GPs for laboratory testing. In the current environment there is demand for both at-home and laboratory-based tests."
"Professor Bell, who is one of Britain’s top scientists and a royally-appointed medical expert at Oxford, sat on the board of directors at Roche – one of just two companies to have had their tests approved so far – from 2001 to 2020.
He was paid at least £300,000 per year by the firm since 2016 until he resigned this year, according to the company’s financial records – a total of £1.2million.
Roche, one of the world’s biggest and most respected pharmaceutical companies, announced Professor Bell was stepping down in December 2019 and his tenure ended in March 2020.
In the same month he was appointed chair of the Department of Health’s New Tests Advisory Group (NTAG) but Oxford says his job was strictly to look at hand-held tests and not lab tests such as the one created by Roche."
If you ask a certain Prof bell he might have your answer for the roche contract.
The firm given the £1m was Mologic...
That article is damning. Should be a major scandal. Will no doubt be hushed up. Public Health England have been a disaster throughout this pandemic. They are a department of and directed by government. Hope there's transparency on how the decisions and comms around Roche and Abbott contract awards were made and people are held to account.
Very much hoping the RTC will come to the rescue. Starting this week. GLA
Bomber; me too just trying to work out what time of day On Monday will be most advantageous to buy ,!
After lunch and before 4pm as seen marginal drops lately , fingers crossed..
@Les....I'm not a big fan of any of the Mail publications, but thanks for posting the link.
I have read the article and if only half of it is true, it paints a sorry picture of the state of the u.k's covid testing situation.
ODX have approached the situation differently, it seems as though they are avoiding the 'false start' at all costs and it will reward us patient share holders in the not too distant future.
Gla
rowka, no fireworks on Monday please, I've freed up more money to top up further on Monday morning...
Not ours.
UK's antibody testing fiasco exposed: Study shows PHE's coronavirus test misses up to a THIRD of positive results, the Department of Health has cancelled orders worth £70MILLION and a firm given £1m by officials produced a sub-standard test:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8326429/UKs-antibody-testing-fiasco-exposed-PHE-test-misses-cases.html