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If that's meant to be a dampner then it needs to be considered that as actual medication it will take much much longer to treat and approve than a mere test, and v much longer to scale up.

Ok123, avacta make affimers, and are making tests using these affimers (smaller and probably more accurate than aptemers), both personal and larger scale supervised fast tests. Skin are using affimers to make their test, and they also use aptemers.

Agree, there's nothing better on the horizon, or even imaginable bar miniaturisation so that it's all in one, and reusable, or even constant monitoring.

And then they need to go through the approval cycle, which is where it is believed that avacta currently are.

Dflynch the only way viruses die out is it there is no population to support it, but seeing as antibodies are only present for 8 to 10 weeks then there will always be a population.

That's what we need, leaders (however good or bad) tied up in legal actions. Guess who wins from this, lawyers.

Tiptree precisely, also at work if that means that the office can be fully staffed, or the factory floor normally manned then it'll be worth more than £4 per person to the business in extra productivity.

Davie large groups of people believe that one shot LFDs are a great idea, they will cost more, and have no digital signature. Multi user requires the affimer to bind and then release on command, and for the sensor area to be made appropriately sterile to accept the next sample (perhaps 24hrs latter), else you'll risk false positives and negatives.
To me bind and release is optimal, but tricky, an acid wash perhaps, as affimers are meant to be quite stake, or dual powered laser and burn it off? Maybe that can be done, but it'll require a machine to do it, so a much bigger handheld machine, or you removing your sensor from the machine, where the person before you may have been positive? Or just have mucky hands.
Technical and practical problems abound with multi use, but the question is what other options are there that give answers in seconds, and can digitally record the answer for short term use? I'm seeing nothing, so it may not be optimal, but it'll do the job.

Cammy, what talk of contracts? I didn't see any, where did your research suggest that? When did you get in?

Gates started MS in his garage with one other person, bezos was also very small and intimately involved in day to day in the early days. But I'm sure they didn't use a media that wasn't invented.

Truffle, for bezos&gates there was no means to engage PIs or indeed PIs that brought and sold themselves, it was all done through brokers.
Regarding musk, have you seen twittet, he's all over it. Also bezos and gates were very small companies where they would be doing a lot of the actual work as opposed to managing teams of experts.
Frankly your opinion shows a complete lack of understanding of any of the people mentioned or the world they worked in.

What on earth is the point of a monthly test in care homes? You could have picked it up, spread it and recovered in that time.

Dflynch they have to fund something, either benefits or furlough else people starve, this is cheaper than the loss in tax take, so is nett positive, under the assumption that something has to be done. The alternative is no furlough, no benefits, and then, well then it's every man for themselves and no one supports anyone, that's not a society, that's America.

Wacca no passport, no travel, no entry, without doing a test there and then at their cost base, however long it takes or if they aren't doing tests turn just no entry. So the 'i don't want to' brigade don't get to take part of society where distancing can't be maintained.

Given the size of GSK I can't see this effecting the price by more than 5%, so I'm not sure what the problem is. A much smaller company would be a concern.

So bugger off then?

They don't multiplex yet, but they will, so you can test for a range of issues, providing it's in the exhalation...

Wonder, yes anywhere where distancing is not an option, you test or show on the door. It might change activity patterns, loading more into one day, but that's ok

Diego you put one at everyone location where you need to be tested, so train stations, work etc. When you get there you either blow and test, or you show the passport. So on the way to work you do it at the train station and it's good for the tube, the office, the way home etc. If you are going to the supermarket you probably stick with just a mask.

From Twitter he's suggesting that are dotted around and you just use whichever is closest, if you aren't going anywhere important turn you don't bother that day.