RE: TESTING16 Apr 2020 09:40
wolves2211, your question was answered yesterday by me, see below. So it’s worth checking others’ posts, particularly 2 outstanding piece of research by Myles.
Oh and I answered that same question on ncyt when sp was below £1, now it’s £5....what a better answer, hey!!!!9
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Vaccine vs Test??? = wrong, imo14 Apr 2020 21:59
It’s not one or the other. Whereas one will always need a test if they’re suspected of having a covid-19 like symptoms, eg fever, coughing etc... but they don’t necessarily need a vaccine if those symptoms happen to be of the flu. Therefore a test must be administered first, if only not to give a vaccine unnecessarily and cause side effects to an otherwise healthy patient. More importantly (from a government point of view), vaccine cost at least x20 more than a test, given the huge discrepancy in terms of money and time scale involved in their production.
The competitive advantage of Avacta test, because of it being affirmers based, is very cheap and faster to produce than the antibodies type, not to mention excellent specificity, as per Avacta’s website re covid-19:
“Although antibodies have shown to be effective reagents in this type of immunodiagnostic assay, they have well-documented limitations, including high cost, time to manufacture, and poor specificity against certain targets, with some targets too difficult to generate antibodies for using traditional processes. The timeline of test development and evaluation can therefore be prolonged when relying on the use of antibodies, which in turn restricts the ability of diagnostics companies to respond to outbreaks fast enough.
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