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We cannot miss infected people, those people going about their daily business thinking they are negative when they are not. What is the point of having that test? May as well abandon testing altogether! It does not work well enough and will cause another lockdown. Simple as that.

Great, meanwhile positive people go walking around infecting everyone. Brilliant!

Me get a grip? Smiling.

Your cost argument really is silly and you are not even considering the huge plastic waste mounting up. I thought we had a plan to save the planet? Not by any shape or measure are throw away one off LFT’s better beyond a home DIY setting than a super fast, lab standard, super low sample req, reusable, automatic, with matrix capabilities test. It can easily go super green by washing out the trays for re use, it could have a bolt on for digital 5G uk wide, even international data collection if required. Further huge savings for the government.

And if AVCT is to be this golden pregnancy throw away test when it missed 1 positive in such a small number tested than frankly it will be a further waste of valuable taxpayers money. Simple as that!

As per RNS March 1st, expected in 4 weeks, we have already had the sensitivity info. We are awaiting specificity, expected by end of April = T - 15 trading days. CE? Ummmm?

Paraytec will now progress to a prospective clinical validation with a larger number of patient samples and seek to obtain a CE mark for the test. Depending on location, the prospective clinical trial (where individual patient outcomes are monitored over time) is expected to take two months to complete and a further update is expected to be made by the end of April 2021.

If I remember correctly Professor Carl tweeted completion of testing for the trial some time ago. This is price sensitive data, sensitivity and specificity. Noone cares if directors sell some shares around end of tax year prior to release of additional positive news, it only becomes a huge insider trading issue if the news turns negative. And yes, they will know exactly what is happening and who the test is performing unlike ourselves. No one will care when they award themselves huge options for the success and use some of the money they acquired selling shares to exercise them because shareholders will be enjoying their own profits.

Don’t get caught with yer trousers down!

Mr Shapps told BBC Breakfast the use of PCR tests - those needing to be sent to a lab - enabled scientists to detect potential variants of concern.
But he said he was "concerned" about the cost of the tests, adding that the government was committed to driving down the price of these by working with the private sector.
"I think they are too expensive and that may be that there needs to be more entrants in the market, and we'll be taking a very close look at that," he said.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-56682226

We have a very long way to go indeed. I’m getting my second jab tomorrow and it seems as if it’s already out of date.

8 April — New coronavirus variants muscle aside potent antibodies

Fast-spreading coronavirus variants identified in California blunt the antibody response triggered by vaccines.

To better gauge any threat posed by the variants, David Veesler at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues conducted laboratory tests of the variants’ ability to elude infection-blocking molecules called neutralizing antibodies (M. McCallum et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/f5jq; 2021). The tests showed that neutralizing antibodies generated by people who had received two doses of either the Pfizer or the Moderna vaccine were, on average, three times less potent against viruses with the spike-protein mutations found in B.1.427 and B.1.429 than against viruses lacking those mutations. The findings have not yet been peer reviewed.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w

Yup, that would be better. The video I posted regarding Brazil stated ‘do not leave any gaps for the virus to exploit’. 4% failure to find an infected person, DIY, Apathy, certificate forging = major risk to vaccinations due to open doors for deadly mutations.

Yeah, that is great.. but they missed a positive in a very small number. If we are to end these lockdowns we cannot rely on tech that has the capability of missing many positives such as at a public event/setting.
If I sit in a plane, I do not want to worry about the 10 people who may have been wrongly tested negative on top of those who have forged test certificates. It is all absolute nonsense and not good enough!

Your point 2 says it all for me. We are the threat regarding tests beyond households.
AVCT LFT sensitivity of 96.7% in trial or correctly identifying 29/30. That equates to missing 10 infectious people on a plane with 300 passengers or 100 positive infectious people in every 3000, or 1000 infectious people in 30,000 at a footy match. No doubt the test was carried out by trained health personnel to ensure a good quality sample.
I don’t like bashing other stocks but I am sick of hearing about this so called golden test that is actually rather cr@p.

Q the abuse!

Or, you could listen to Professor Carl Smythe who has stated on Twitter ‘It Works!’.
I think I’ll follow the Professor rather than an anonymous poster on a BB!
Thanks for your concern.

You are either deliberately missing the point on purpose or completely blind to reality!?

People CHEAT ALL THE TIME for all sorts of reasons. DIY testing will always leave a huge void for cheating and therefore risk lives and the economy. It is not good enough.

So trig, already a market for fake self testing.

Travelling during Covid: 'I was nervous using a fake Covid-19 test certificate'

24-year-old Louise* travelled to Ghana in October using a fake negative Covid-19 test certificate – the documentation some countries require to prove you don't have the virus and are fit to fly before you leave.

Ghana is one of those countries and Louise says she needed to travel there for work and couldn't afford the cost of the test. They can cost between £100 to £300, so she looked into getting a fake certificate.
"I just asked people I knew, 'who does photoshop?' I asked my friends to see their Covid tests just to get a structure of what the certificate looks like and then had someone make one for me."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/ee6ed923-e00e-445b-8a98-7b9917178e30

“While the sensitivity of tests – the ability of tests to accurately identify infected travellers – is a key element of an effective testing scheme, it is also important to take account of other aspects, such as CAPACITY feasibility and costs of different testing schemes,” the report adds.

“As mass vaccination builds confidence and passenger volumes start to return, the ability to tests QUICKLY and at SCALE with manageable COSTS is critical to the aviation sector’s future.

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/rapid-antigen-tests-on-departure-could-reopen-international-travel

I would suggest the list of 4 are critical to every nation in every industry.

He joined calls from bosses of airlines including easyJet and Virgin Atlantic this week to look at the costs of Covid tests, with PCR tests priced at more than many air fares. Walsh said: “We want to see other forms of testing that are equally reliable and significantly cheaper and faster and more comfortable for customers to undertake, embraced by governments.”

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/07/covid-testing-must-not-become-new-norm-to-fly-says-airline-trade-body

Concerns grow over Covid-19 variants, following a sharp increase in cases

EXCLUSIVEScientific advisers have noted an uptick in transmission in the UK due to the South African strain and a deadlier version first identified in Nigeria

Concerns over the South African variant and a deadlier, lesser-known strain first identified in Nigeria are rising among Government scientific advisers after an uptick in cases of both in the UK over the past week, i has learned.
The next stage in the roadmap for relaxing restrictions in England has been given the go-ahead for Monday, after the threat from new variants and three other measures were deemed to be under control.
However, latest figures seen by i show there have now been more than 470 cases of the South African variant, B1351, compared to around 400 a week ago, and 150 at the start of February.

The Nigerian variant has a higher case fatality rate, at 4.3 per cent, than the South African strain at 2.2 per cent and the Kent variant at 2.3 per cent, according to documents seen by i. B1351 has so far accounted for nine UK deaths while 12 people have died with the B1525 variant.

Travellers arriving in the UK from France and other countries not on the “red list” have to go into self-quarantine and produce evidence of a negative test.
However, there have been concerns of forged test results as well as travellers not sticking to quarantine rules.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/inews.co.uk/news/health/concerns-grow-over-covid-19-variants-following-a-sharp-increase-in-cases-946525/amp

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) announced today the launch of a request for proposals (RFP) to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and market availability of accurate, affordable, quality-assured and easy-to-use SARS-CoV-2 self-tests for use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Currently, there are no affordable SARS-CoV-2 self-tests for use in resource-limited settings. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved five tests for at-home use, their high price prohibits widespread adoption in LMICs. However, low-cost technologies, initially developed for administration by healthcare professionals, could be adapted for affordable self-testing.

Given the higher risk of user error with self-tests, compared with professionally administered tests, a central focus of the RFP is to address the availability of self-test solutions that are exceptionally easy to use, which could be because of their product design (such as easy to obtain samples, intuitive test interpretation, or accessible instructions), and/or supporting tools (such as digital solutions).

Even as rapid test prices have dropped, only developed countries have scaled up their testing, while LMICs still have a big access gap. Most of the testing in LMICs goes on in the higher level of healthcare settings only, leaving a big population that lives in the rural areas untested. We urgently need new use cases for widespread community and self-testing.”

Peter Ngo'la Owiti, Community Representative, ACT-A Facilitation Council

Ensure equitable access to new and existing tests, including the procurement and distribution of at least 900 million molecular and antigen rapid tests (including self-tests)

Stimulate rapid and effective uptake of appropriate and quality-assured diagnostics in countries

Drive development and at-scale availability of affordable, transformative, digitally integrated tests.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210405/FIND-announces-launch-of-a-request-for-proposals-to-expand-access-to-COVID-19-testing-services.aspx

Connecting the system

Next, we need to connect the system so data flows appropriately and freely, and we get the intrinsic benefits that high quality data and interoperability can provide.

Bringing together data, that once upon a time would have only existed in silos, was fundamental to the COVID response.

One of my lessons from the COVID response is that the pulling together of data that previously had been in silos is absolutely critical.

For instance, it helped us to identify those who are most vulnerable to coronavirus and ask them to shield, bringing together evidence from across government to understand who is most vulnerable and needed most support during the lockdowns.

It drove our NHS COVID-19 data store, which helped mean we had real-time data to allocate resources and co-ordinate our response.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/driving-digital-in-the-nhs

I hope Paraytec understand the just how well the reusable magic shoebox could (with a little Bolt on addition) offer quick live digital test data unlike any DIY pregnancy type test ever could.