RE: Test test test is the answer, from Bill Gate10 Apr 2020 09:39
Government purchase 3.5 useless millions tests, hence the need for AVCT specific and accurate test.
“UK government urged to abandon 'poor' finger-prick antibody tests
None of 3.5m home tests ordered have so far been accurate enough to detect coronavirus immunity”.
“The failure of the tests and the complexity of the work to improve them means that a working antibody test could be months away. The tests may be performing badly because they were validated against blood from patients who were severely ill and produced a strong immune response to the virus, unlike most people, who become only mildly ill.”
“The global rush for antibody tests meant that many governments found themselves in the position where they had to weigh up the risks of buying poor-quality tests and having no tests at all. “The Department of Health and Social Care wanted to get tests quickly and felt it had to commit,” Bell said. “To their credit they put them through rigorous testing.”
“It’s still possible that we won’t get a test … We don’t want to put out a test that is poor. We want a good test that gives us the answers we want,” Bell added.
“Without a home-test kit, blood samples can still be checked for antibodies using a lab-based process called an Elisa, which is what Hibberd wants to see adopted. The Elisa test at Oxford can distinguish positive and negative samples of blood with almost 100% accuracy. The downside is that blood needs to be taken from people and sent to the lab for testing.”
“This is the sort of testing we need, not these home kits,” Hibberd said. “Will they get their money back on these tests? Who knows. Somebody else will buy them, I’m quite sure.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-urged-to-abandon-poor-finger-prick-antibody-tests-coronavirus
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