The latest Investing Matters Podcast with Jean Roche, Co-Manager of Schroder UK Mid Cap Investment Trust has just been released. Listen here.
Unless they have discovered a new more efficient testing approach this will have a significant impact on the availability of testing. My wife works for the NHS and gets tested once a week but she works frontline and their are a lot of staff who do not get tested because they don't have the capacity (it would have too big a negative impact on the lab's ability to do all the other work they do.
According to the Wayback Machine the website changed from open to closed sometime before the 15th July and after the 10th June but we know they were still recruiting for the home trial after then.... https://web.archive.org/web/20200715213302/https://www.nihr.ac.uk/covid-studies/study-detail.htm?entryId=281317
Adam Brody also liked this post from @stickstock81 on the 25th Sept
'Which is superb how far the technology has come forward already. The likes of @avacta using BAMS spectrometers, and CV of pregnancy saliva tests to name only 1 of 4 via condor. It will certainly save life’s and be a god send to many people'
Testing response times are not improving and labs are not able to scale up to cope.
Data shows that from time of test over 20% of people do not receive their COVID test results within 48 hours and 65% take more than 24 - 48 hrs
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-england-and-coronavirus-testing-uk-statistics-24-september-to-30-september-2020
The government are really relying on the Avacta LFT to bring the time to test result down. Moonshot is the icing on the cake, they can't even service the current requirements within a reasonable time....
Check from 14 mins 10 seconds
This is a very technical discussion and talked about interferon response genes in smokers who have Covid and compares the impact on the infected cells with Interferon B and Remdesivir
https://youtu.be/ayBmlmfCad0
It Showed that interferon B was a lot more effective than Remdesivir.
It wasn't discussed but from the diagrams it also appeared to show visually that interferonB showed an improvement of the cells of smokers who didn't have Covid (this wasn't discussed but that's what the images seemed to show).
Have a good friend who is an ICU nurse in a London hospital, they're prepping again for the worst. They've already seen a significant increase in patients. She said at least this time they won't have all the PPE issues. The treatments aren't perfect but at least they now know to avoid what definitely makes things worse...
From the BBC
The number of new Covid cases admitted to hospital has jumped by a quarter in England in a day.
There were 478 hospitalisations on Sunday, up from 386 the day before.
It is the largest daily figure since early June. There were no admissions in Northern Ireland, while the data for Scotland is not yet available for Sunday - and Wales counts cases differently.
There are now nearly 2,800 patients in hospital in England with Covid. At the peak, it topped 17,000.
Just saw the video, Trump really didn't look great. As Professor Holgate mentioned on Sky, the virus tents to recede a little and then comes back hard. I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump back in hospital in the next few days.