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At the risk of being shot down for being criminally ignorant, can anyone tell me what the legal structure of AffyXell is and, assuming it’s a corporate entity, where it was incorporated? Have been trying to find out more about it’s constitution but can’t find anything. Evidently don’t have PL’s google skills (or more likely am just plain dumb!)

Omega have been tweeting on this. Interesting I think that they don’t cite the reference to them and Mologic, preferring instead to cite more general passages from the HP piece.

Becoming more convinced ODX and AVCT have a tie up...

https://twitter.com/OmegaDiagnostic/status/1356367118317584384?s=20

“ The Global Rapid Test Kit Market was valued at USD 23.44 Billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a formidable rate of 8.14% during the forecast period.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-rapid-test-kit-markets-2021-2026-by-type-product-technology-duration-application-end-users--region---covid-19-has-drastically-increased-the-demand-301218853.html

Admittedly this includes rapid tests for many other conditions, but it does demonstrate the size of the potential market if Affimers can be proven an effective and efficient reagent in LFT’s I think.

PAH00 - hasn't BAMS evolved to look at both the S and N proteins now?

See from about 8.30 to 10.15 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ_KY2sQc9E

https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/heathrow-launches-covid-19-testing-pilot-among-employees/

20 min turnaround time

For info - https://seekingalpha.com/article/4401536-graphite-miners-news-for-month-of-january-2021

Sorry if already posted.

Now Lord Bethell is tweeting about antigen LFT’s.

https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1355787926819500038

Feels like something is brewing....

Here’s a clip of Blair on Sophie Ridge this AM

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1355830894737707008

Whatever we think about Blair, his voice still carries some weight I think, and he has been one of the advocates of mass testing for a long time. You need only look at pieces from the Institute for Global Change (Blair is the Chair) for some history.

In that respect this last piece published 28/1 about global travel passes is interesting, because that is where the real money for us could be made.

https://institute.global/policy/introducing-global-covid-travel-pass-get-world-moving-again.

It’s all about the direction of travel, so to speak!

Talking about things on this week, Dido Harding is up in front of the Commons Science and Tech committee on Weds between 9 and 12 to answer questions about T&T, and “ UK Science, Research and Technology Capability and Influence in Global Disease Outbreaks”.

Who knows, we might get more info out of her.

I wondered that too! Anyone notice he joined LSE on the day AS share sale was announced by RNS, and his first two posts were about just that....!

Whatever, he’s a great poster!

@agentB - I am sure there is a testing consortium as well. In fact it’s even referenced in section 2.6 in this earlier PAC contract - the “Manufacturing Industry Consortium”.

https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/#0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kEmm/1GQnGKcCpxZ0aRSb.hadLQLR.q7iSXlHqFZG6OD1eTc

It seems pretty clear to me that we, alongside many others in the COVID LFT space are all caught up in the governments national testing program. You only have to look at the most recent, and prior PA consulting contracts to see what those plans have been, and to other government contracts demonstrating delivery of those plans/timetable.

If that’s the case, then this from Section 3 (lateral flow tests) in the last PAC contract seems interesting to me;

“Detailed SCALE UP AND MANUFACTURING plans completed for each SELECTED U.K. manufacturer” - deadline 30/11/20.

Given PAC seem to hit their deadlines, can we perhaps assume that all U.K. LFT manufacturers expected to play an ongoing role in the National Testing Program had already been SELECTED by 30/11?

If so, then the timing of the last AVCT LFT updated is interesting given it was on 23/11, just one week before that deadline, and even more so given that it was all about “significant development” in the scaled up manufacturing process with BBI.

Doesn’t seem the most rational of chaps..

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27/tanzania-president-denounces-covid-vaccines

Wasn’t this all part of the PA Consulting work? See section 3 of https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/0e2237f3-e917-4957-9711-6de1c33be75d

I’m sure they do. So why are we kept in the dark and left to join dots?

If it’s been clinically validated, then it would be nice to be told the outcome.

For info, these are the people looking after us at FTI Consulting

https://www.fticonsulting.com/our-people/simon-conway

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-cuthbert-15bb3b25/?originalSubdomain=uk

Both in Strategic Comms

Getting decent coverage in the US now - looks like Innova Is shortly expected to get EUA approval (maybe the U.K. could sell its stockpile to Biden!)

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1354419564868726788

Thanks all. Maybe Trading Update could be another runner for Richob tomorrow, although tbh I’m still waiting for the bus he promised to get us all there!