RE: Pity Valirx sold their TRAC19 Mar 2020 20:24
Ive just received van answer to my question which was based on the viability of using Geneice/TRAC technology to test for Coronavirus presence... My source is a Lady Scientist and Doctor who many of us know and respect...no smoke and mirrors ...just a straight forward answer that we can all understand.
"It’s a nice idea, but GeneICE is an early stage therapeutic idea - nothing to do with viruses or testing.
I don’t know whether TRAC could do it, but as that’s not set up anywhere at the moment it can’t just immediately be used for it (and would need to be developed to do so).
For me, the key will be when they’ve got a test to show past exposure (and/or immunity) as well as the presence of live virus. That would quickly clear a whole crowd of people to be available to look after the more vulnerable people without putting them at risk. I suspect that’s why they’re not pushing the testing numbers at the moment, because once you can do what I’ve described the original test isn’t needed".