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How in the world does that get through a risk assessment? They should absolutely minimise the risk of false negatives above all else, confirming a positive is great for OCR business but really not the important aspect here!

Fun fact...on the basis of its economy, if California were a country it would be the fifth wealthiest in the world. Good choice as a place to do business!

Good to hear!

Sonicboomboy are you reading the Spanish tender stuff the same as me, it looks like the 5 lots today relate to PPE?

Probably because the thank you tweet by PD was to wrong address...expect they will put a correct one up!

Conversation with advisers would have gone along the lines of "what part of this is true?'.
..we know Norfolk HA had issues with equipment/staff required and that is actually the only trust that is named (convenient vague use of 'including Norfolk', you can bet your life if the journalist had others he could name then he would have)
..is the rollout being halted? No - government has clearly refuted this
...are there problems with accuracy? No, government has also stated this.
...is the contract being reconsidered by DHSC? Not as far as we are aware, so company cannot comment one way or the other

No RNS required based on any of that

Then today, has the share price dropped dramatically, apparently on the publication of the article? No, appears v similar to last week - so no need for clarification to correct misinformation in the market.

I know we are all desperate for a positive update from the company but it should come when they have real news to give us, not knee jerk reactions to any bit of press or rumour that might surface. They could spend half of every day dealing with that (imagine if they were responding to all the bits of news that we believe are positive, even this weekend, Spain, Germany etc). That's not the purpose of RNS or the remit of the company.

Any excuse to take a shot at the Tories for the Independent, I’m sure PrimerDesign is just collateral damage

Haven’t NCYT also introduced pipette free testing - presumably as a solution to the issue?

So you think Microgen might have an antigen LFT ready?

Opportunity for what Wilson?

It was at a visit to PD that he said it, don’t think he meant production would be there

To be clear I mean the strange after effects are covid related, not because of intubation. No matter how young and healthy you are, it’s best not to catch this virus, it really isn’t just flu.

I accept the guy’s argument about mortality rate. I’m putting aside the issue of long covid and the still unknown long term effects on the health of people who survive hospitalisation with covid (intubation is not like treating a broken leg and there are some very strange after effects such as strokes, diabetes, deafness occurring). He also ignores the fact that covid is ten times as contagious and can be carried asymptomatically, so unlike flu or SARS, infectious people don’t naturally isolate. If we stopped testing everyone and just let everyone decide what risk to take, the hospitals simply would not withstand the strain and without healthcare, society starts to break down. So no, I don’t think we should be worried about what this guy is saying.

Couldn’t it be Avacta?

It doesn't look very big I agree, but could be the first of many labs using Primer Design/Versalab?

'5 minutes from Memphis airport' according to the website. So convenient for the receipt of samples from further afield...

Funny...I found out by chance yesterday that on building sites the workers have to get regular drugs tests...so that's one industry this actually happens in, there are presumably others. Yes, Orwellian but also sensible in some situations.

Why would we partner with IDH rather than MIcrogen just producing it with their other LFT's? Apologies if stupid question...

What we could do with on this board is someone who understands the government tendering process and announcements/publications, they have us all in knots of confusion it seems (could it possibly be intentional, professing transparency and yet providing very little)!

Oh it would be so nice today to have an RNS like IDH...have you seen the SP?