Random message for Elsol, apologies for cross post as its regarding another share but didn't want to post in there. Its regarding your links to UKHSA, I'm a small private investor also in the company that are working with them. Could you meet me in the room posted here so I can discuss a proposal with you? I don't want to put any of my contact information on here, if you could reply initially by message on here the time you will reply on the link so I know its you. Thanks https://y99.in/r/1623213
I liked it when he basically said we have first mover advantage on any other inhaled broad spectrum anti-viral. When you consider the timing, there has been a considerable luck. IF vaccines do massively reduce the need for this drug, the window for further trials for other companies are potentially narrowing and so it may be other companies cannot generate as good a data set and, as long as we generate good data, we could be the only approved inhaled broad spectrum anti-viral until the next pandemic comes along. The upside here could be much much bigger than we think in terms of stockpiling.
https://www.henryschein.co.uk/gb-en/specialmkts-gb/p/med-diagnostic-emergency/blood-analysis-equipment/rapid-response-covid-19-antigen-saliva-15min-test-device-current-suspected-infection-25pk-nonreturn/1199871
Sorry helps if I post the link
Hi all,
Just thought I'd let you know we are now able to purchase these tests from a major dental supplier in the UK. Nasopharyngeal swab lateral flow test, priced at £6.80 per test and results in 15 minutes. Data sheet says 100% specificity and 96% sensitivity. I've got to admit that's pretty good value, only downside I see is nasopharyngeal rather than saliva and not totally convinced how sensitivity/specificity data has been validated. Feel free to research the brand...
What do people think the reason would be for the roll out of the vaccine to NHS workers and not the over 65'svand vulnerable? The likely reason being they just won't have the supply to vaccinate the older population. Or could it be they don't think it's particularly effective in the older community and therefore are targeting the younger population who might develop a stronger immune response and protect the elderly through herd immunity (if that even works as we don't know the length and strength of immunity).
Personally, I'm not anti-vax, but as an NHS worker I'll need to do a lot more research on this vaccine and the trial before I consider having it.
I don't think sng and vaccines are in competition. Vaccines will not be the silver bullet people think in my opinion and Synairgen will sell every dose they can make if it gets through phase 3.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/90-minute-tests-for-coronavirus-trialled-in-hospitals-and-carehomes-7zcvk7kgf
Boris Johnsons spokesperson explains the pilot testing of the saliva swab lft in schools, care homes and universities is to see how it might work. Suggests any person with a positive test on lft will then have another swab to be sent for PCR test and told to isolate. Two days on the trot for big articles on lft in the times...only a matter of time imo...
Hi everyone,
Call me a cynic but is anybody starting to feel that the global elite are ignoring Synairgen because it doesn't fit in with their mass vaccination agenda? Is the reason why the government invested so much time and energy creating the rapid testing consortium to create a pseudo gold standard antibody test so that we have to show our immunity through immunity passports to live a "normal" life. Have this vaccination and you can be set free! I don't believe for a minute that somebody somewhere isn't making a lot of money (or power) from mass vaccinations (ahem bill gates). An extremely effective treatment such as sng001 would not fit into this narrative, especially a prophylactic treatment. There would be no need for a vaccine if that was the case. I think this is something worth discussing. Wouldn't the government be shouting the home trial from the rooftops if they genuinely wanted this treatment to be successful. We needed 100 or so patients....let me repeat that....100!!! How many have died??? I genuinely believe there is something seriously underhand and sinister going on here.
Foreverfalling that link doesn't confirm sd biosensor to be oral swab, it's talking about Roche's new test which is a high throughput automated antigen lab test from what I gather. Spreading misinformation there...
In case anybody missed it, Oxford Nanopores LAMPore test which the UK government have bought gained CE mark on 9th October so I assume some of the "rapid" tests he was talking about were Oxford nanopore as mentioned in the times article. They are saliva or nasopharyngeal but it's a 2 hour turnaround time to results, I think to say they are rapid is stretching it somewhat...
I agree with your description pigster. After doing a bit of research, saliva sample is often collected through a pipette with a sponge on the end that soaks up the saliva. I think this will be dispensed on the left pad, followed by a couple of drops of buffer. Unless it is just a case of swabbing the floor of the mouth where saliva collects, before mixing end of swab with buffer and applying to lft. All speculation but will be interesting to find out. I think first option would be simpler. I don't think you will spit directly on the device, that's too crude, and I don't think we should be encouraging spitting when we know the virus is extremely contagious. The application of saliva needs to be controlled and precise IMO.
O&W - correct me if I'm wrong but SD biosensor and Abbott are both nasopharyngeal swab, so when Boris talks about mouth swab, this implies a test that doesn't require a swab from the nose. This surely then rules out these two tests. There is no company that we are aware of that has a validated saliva or only mouth swab "pregnancy style" lateral flow test. Surely we would have heard if there was.
Why did Boris talk about a mouth swab rather than saliva test, especially when talking about trialling in schools? My experience from taking my children (6month and 4) for covid tests is that they don't tell you to do a swab of the pharynx (mouth) because it's too difficult so they just tell you to swab the nose.
My glass half full feeling is if it isn't Avacta being trialled, then it is purely to work out the day to day logistics of mass testing school children with nasopharyngeal LFT's but only swabbing the mouth in the knowledge that Avactas test is round the corner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/health/coronavirus-saliva-tests.html
https://www.clinigengroup.com/about-cliniport/
Details what clinigens managed access program provides, all positive for me!
Times article today talking ways of increasing the number of tests or day to 4.5 million. Also, discusses pooling saliva for a group of people (perhaps 30 school children) and sending the sample away to be tested for coronavirus. In the same paragraph it mentions a similar technique is being used to detect coronavirus in sewage. Could this be SKIN and similar technique being affimers? I also wonder if it is the BAMS technology they would be using for this pooled saliva as I doubt pools of saliva will be used on one lateral flow test. Any thoughts?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-matt-han****-banks-on-saliva-tests-for-operation-moonshot-lift-off-56vv0r26x
Apologies if posted, this lady summarises the Science data for auto-antibodies well will a special mention of interferon beta at the end.
https://twitter.com/LucyWalkerlab/status/1309264238792368130?s=19