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Paperwork with Doctors Lab test describes it as “a capillary blood self-sampling test kit used in the detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 virus.
I’m not attempting to compare it with an ODX product - I thought you might be interested. I am not trying to twist knickers.
But now I’m taking dog for a walk.
That’s what happened ... I posted it to lab. Result 48 hours later.
I participated in the PHE survey last year, sending blood sample each month for 6 months. Kit and packaging virtually identical to Doctors Lab kit. I don’t think it was a scam.
...Rotherwas, not Rotherham.
Just received email from The Online Clinic offering antibody test:
“ The sample is taken at home using an MHRA approved sampling kit. The test is CE marked for capillary sampling. Results take 24 hours after the sample is received back at the lab. RM24 Tracked return envelope is included to ensure the sample is back at the lab as soon as possible.
The sensitivity on the test is 99.98%.
The sample can be taken 14 days or more after vaccination or illness possibly related to Covid.
The price of the test is £99.95 and can be accessed from your patient dashboard. “
As it happens, I tested on Monday with a kit total £54 inc postage from Medexpress. Test kit provided labelled ‘The Doctors Laboratory Ltd in Rotherham, HR2 ‘
Correction ... sorry, the interviews (2) were on BBC radio 4, ‘Today’ programme. Starts 0720 for 10 mins.
Good Morning
First time here.
I was holding a small number if this stock until this morning, when I added. This followed my listening to a radio interview on BBC ‘This Morning’ which began at approx 0720. (Listen for 10 mins)
It was about recent advances by DeepMind, a Google company, regarding proteins and algorithms, but in fields not dissimilar to the Deepverge interests. Maybe.
Are Deepverge and DeepMind connected?
Hello Avis
No, I am not Deeks. I did not know of him before this morning.
I am long on ODX, and have never shorted a stock. So I am optomistic about this share but try to stay realistic.
But you seem to see scepticism and negativity as the same thing. Choosing to select the rosier Daily Mail report rather than the Guardian report as a reference point if of course your choice, but that does not invalidate the crticism reported in the Guardian. I do not rely on any one press outlet - I read them all - then draw my conclusion.
Most message boards are over optomistic and 90% drivel, although ODX is better than most so I read a lot of your and others comments. That I have only added 9 posts (10?) is neither here no there, and my sceptical observations are as equally valid as the wildly optomistic, and the wildly negative ones.
Regarding the PHE survery: once a month for 6 months 20K volunteers send in a finger prick blood sample so PHE can see how Covid19 is spreading. I can't remember now if I've completed 5 or 6 tests. I did ask but they will not or cannot tell individuals if they carry Covid antibodies.
What I do for a living is not your concern
I hope this answers your questions, and hope you keep well and prosper.
Sorry for delay, en route to work... will answer in a short while.
Deeks reported comments do explain Government delay in picking up this test earlier.
I did not know Deeks had been developing his own tests. Do take from his remarks that Deeks is petulantly voicing sour grapes?
Copied from this morning’s Guardian article:
“ In late August, Prof Jon Deeks, from Birmingham University, who heads the Royal Statistical Society’s working group drawing up guidelines for evaluating all types of Covid tests, said the data about the UK antibody test on Abingdon Health’s website “cannot be trusted”.
Public Health England has now done a full independent evaluation, but that is said to be going through peer review and the results have not yet been made public.
Deeks said there were major questions over the decision to go ahead and buy the tests.
“We don’t know how well this test works, so why is the government buying it? The first study undertaken by members of the consortium is critically flawed, as was pointed out many weeks ago,” he told the Guardian.
“The PHE independent study is finished, but the results are being kept secret from us. Another independent evaluation by the REACT team (at Imperial College London) is not yet finished. For the government to say ‘we follow the science’ is baloney. There is no rush for these tests, so why spend millions of pounds buying them before the evidence is complete and available for scrutiny?
“We wasted millions on poor Chinese tests in March, we wasted millions buying tests from Roche, which the government wrongly told us were 100% accurate – and now the government is failing to show us any valid evidence at all that suggests that spending millions buying these tests is sensible.”
This report is at odds with the wild optimism shown on this board. I have also read the Daily Mail report which, for whatever reason, but not unexpectedly, omits the criticisms expressed in the Guardian.
I don’t draw any conclusions from this but have to add that I have completed the PHE survey, and have been holding this stock since the beginning of the year.
Good morning
That was nice to wake up to ... sold half at 81.5.
Skimming through the board I saw BOIL mentioned a couple of times but could not work out the connection to ODX.
20 years ago I had shares in an oil exploration co called BOIL. It went belly up. Is there a connection?
Thanks.
Gee, Pommy, that In 2 Win guy doesn’t like you much.
What was all that stuff about betting all he has, wife up the duff etc, pleading for release?
He’s in the wrong game.
Well, that shut you all up.
I’ve got more stories ...
... but by the way, I’m already in the Public Health aengland survey. 20K volunteers. Each month we do a finger prick and fill a tiny 5ml vial with blood, and post it off on the 6th of each month. Done 2 now, with 4 to go.
The survey is to gain a picture of antibody distribution. Drawback is that they don’t let individuals know if they have or have not got antibodies. Hence my interest in getting an Omega kit.
Long term holder by the way, 35K holding.
Blimey!
I’m sorry I told you about it now.
I emailed Omega via their website this morning requesting a ‘shareholder perk’ ... I wanted to buy 2 test kits, for myself and Mrs.
Walbrook PR replied promptly on behalf of ODX:
“Thank you for your email surrounding Omega Diagnostics and your continued support for the Company.
At the moment it looks likes the lateral flow test Omega is developing with the UK RTC Consortium is to be sold to one customer: the UK government. Until a supply agreement is finalised it won’t be clear what the other options are for manufacturers to produce the test outside this agreement. Omega will know more when a supply agreement is finalised.
Would you like to be added to the Omega Diagnostics distribution list? This will mean you’ll receive all future, relevant investor communications on the Company going forward? “