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The ramping up and ramping down is boring. ODX stock is safe for now. it will be trading at .50 and above until at least early June. I'm off for a spot of tennis, see you in June.

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Coronavirus: New COVID-19 antibody test to be available in the next two weeks
Thursday 21 May 2020 07:16, UK
News correspondent @TomSkyNews

The groundbreaking test takes a blood sample from a patient and analyses it for antibodies to show if someone has had the virus.

Trials are starting to get under way at four hospitals in England including the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire where they are confident of being able to handle thousands of the antibody tests every day from 1 June.

Sky News was given exclusive access to the blood science laboratory at the hospital where they are preparing to start the tests.
The test being used in Preston has been developed by the medical company Roche in collaboration with the NHS and involves a blood sample being taken and then analysed on existing equipment at the hospital.
In addition to the recent huge expansion of the UK's swab-based coronavirus testing capacity, we are actively developing our plans for antibody testing across the NHS and ultimately the wider public."

Simpler "finger prick" type tests for antibodies that could be carried out at home are being looked at as well but currently none have yet been approved for use.

The last paragraph sounds like ODX. Hopefully, it gets approved.

Lot's of conflicting news from the media, but the RTC consortium is still very much in the game.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/20/test-antibody-uk-coronavirus-covid-19-buy-when/

How do coronavirus home antibody tests work, and how do I get one?
A coronavirus antibody test kit has been approved by Public Health England

By
Telegraph Reporters
20 May 2020 • 4:04pm

The Telegraph understands that the Department of Health is in negotiations with Swiss healthcare company Roche to buy millions of its coronavirus antibody test kits.

The accuracy of the test was given approval by experts at PHE’s Porton Down facility. Then, on May 13, Roche said it stood ready to provide hundreds of thousands of laboratory-based tests to the NHS each week.

The Government had previously hoped to roll out millions of antibody tests, but supplies from China failed to pass sensitivity and specificity tests.

Ministers will attempt to recoup taxpayers' money spent on the fingerprick tests after an Oxford University trial found they returned inaccurate results.

Another antibody test being pioneered by Oxford University could be available by the end of May, according to Professor John Newton, the UK's national testing co-ordinator.

On April 26, the Government was forced to deny claims it had ordered up to 50 million home testing kits.
Department of Health sources dismissed a report that 50 million antibody tests had been ordered by ministers at a cost of as little as £10 each. Public Health England had said that a small number of tests would be tested in a laboratory before being distributed via Amazon and sold in Boots. Had the tests passed the laboratory testing, they would then have been available to everyone.

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Once ODX has design freeze it's all systems go. It doesn't matter if SlowJo wants to stick with Roche (which he wont). Design freeze means CE mark, approved by WHO, then distributed around the globe, including China and USA. Just sit tight and relax.

Listen, I've said before, anyone doing their research on twitter, needs their heads checked. Twitter is a gimmick used for ramping up and down. There are no dates on these twitter posts you keep putting out. Please stop with the misinformation and just put out comments that are bonafide with dates of when the comments were made. Thanks.

Calm before the storm. Expecting news very soon of how the trials went that started on 18th March. Been getting good feedback about the trials. See RNS on 30th April.

Lay your cash, sit back, and wait until the end of the month. Why are people getting so desperate for news? Is this the last of their life savings? If so then more fool them.

Can someone have a word with the CEO. Remind him that investors are pumping money into AFC on a daily basis. Surely it's time now for a bounce. Last bounce we had was back in February. Time to keep the shareholders happy and stop being a scrooge.

It might take a while to get a vaccine, so let's just work with what we have. Antibody testing starts tomorrow, mass testing will start in two weeks. Prepare for news. Looking forward to this week.

Have a good read:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/swiss-firm-roche-in-talks-with-uk-over-antibody-tests/1840696

Quote: 'The public health valuation confirmed the test is highly reliable and precise on May 7, and it complies with EU safety rules and can be made available in markets, including the UK, said Roche.

Kleine cited an earlier announcement by Geoff Twist, managing director of Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland, about the successful completion of the test.

In that statement, Twist said the company was moving to the next phase "to enable the rollout of our test across the UK as soon as possible."

Kleine said Roche had also received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration on May 2.

"We will be able to provide hundreds of thousands of antibody tests to the UK per week," said Kleine.

"Hospitals and reference laboratories can run the test on fully-automated equipment already widely installed by Roche Diagnostics at sites across the UK with results provided in 18 minutes."

Roche said its diagnostics' section has a new serology test that supports the detection of antibodies in patients who have been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19.

The test requires a blood sample to be taken by a qualified health care professional and processed in a laboratory'. UNQUOTE

As I said earlier OXD will still have a big part to play in the processing of the tests . OXD labs are already on standy. Just sit back, and relax. RNS coming very very soon.

scardey_cat - I actually believed Mologic had this wrapped up. Now I realise that although they claimed to have the perfect test, it's now obvious they didn't. I now see why Omega has kept quiet. Mologic was making all the noise confusing everyone. My tune has not changed as I will still be holding onto this stock. Omegas deal with Mologic was seperate from the RTC agreement so I'm pretty sure Omega will still have a part to play.

Dibs61 - That's what Mologic claims. On the 1st May Mologic put out this announcement:

Mologic is pleased to announce that following rigorous independent assessment by St George’s, University London and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, our point-of-need, professional use, rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for COVID-19 has achieved preliminary clinical performance data of 98% sensitivity at days 14-21 and specificity of 96%

Notice they say preliminary clinical performance. Maybe the specificity was not up to scratch. Either way this test has obviously not been approved by Public Health England for whatever reason. But I wouldn't write off Omega just yet. They have a very good resume and huge manufacturing facilities so they may still be used by the government in some way or another.

Listen, the RTC's test can still be sold around the world with a 98% accuracy so it's not the end of the world. It's just that their test will not be used by the government on UK citizens. Checkout Sky News right now for talk on Antibodies testing.

Anyone that listens to twitter needs their heads checked. The ONS survey was completed over the weekend. This is old news.

If the RTC Consortium continue to dither, Boris will just look elsewhere. The country needs a reliable antibodies test NOW. The ROCHE test has only been approved by Public Health England, an actual deal with the government is not yet in place. Of course Boris wants the UK Consortium to do the tests , but he will not roll out tests that do not meet Public Health standards. The Consortium needs to hurry up and get their act together otherwise the ship will sail without them.

Hundreds are dying daily, so a 100% accurate lab based antibodies test is better than no antibodies test at all. So yes this is a game changer for now.

At last we have an antibodies test that has actually been approved by PHE. This is great news for the country. What is surprising is that this is a lab based test. Very surprising that Roche's lab based test has been approved but not Mologic's. The government is not wasting any time. If Mologic cannot get their test up to the standard required, they will look elsewhere. As I said before, developing an accurate home based kit is not going to be easy. People think it will be on the shelves soon, but there is no guarantee, it could take years to develop.

This is not good news for the UK consortium but ODX I am sure will still be needed. Next step now will be manufacturing, which is where ODX comes in. Do Roche have the capability to roll out this test on mass in the UK? They already need to supply the American market, so they will need as many manufacturers over here as possible. We are now days away from news from ODX, as to whether they will be involved in the rollout. Eagerly awaiting next RNA.

@squadraazzura, yes the antibodies test is the way out of this lockdown and to find out who has immunity. But it is looking increasingly likely that Mologic are having trouble with accuracy from the POC devices, as the government are stalling with the results from the recent survey?

All the manufactureres like ODX and Biosure are ready to rollout 40,00 lab based tests per day. My point is if they are having problems with the POC home test kits, why dont they just get people to send the blood from the pin prick and have it tested in the lab, or would they need more than a pin prick of blood for the lab test. This POC device is proving very difficult to achieve high accuracy not just for UK, but for every country in the world. The way the government were talking on Monday I thought they had this done and dusted. But it's looking more and more likely that until we hear a design freeze RNS we can assume that the rapid home test kits has not yet been approved.

It seems like the whole world is having trouble making a POC device that's accurate enough to be rolled out. If they are having so much trouble, I don't see why they don't just stick to the lab based antibodies testing, or are the lab based tests just antigen tests and not antibodies testing? Very confusing.