RE: ABC-19 testing kit works25 Feb 2021 21:45
IMO the reason for the MHRA delay is perfectly summed up in your test result. Even someone who has had both vaccines gets a very weak positive band on the test line. Now give this test to a general member of the public who has never read a test like this, has bad eyesight, or an even weaker antibody response and they cannot definitely say they are positive. Allow a medical professional who has read many, eg tens or hundreds of these tests make that decision and then that margin of error is removed. Also consider that the member of the general public has a vested interest in the test giving a positive result so they can travel etc. If the medical professional makes this decision then that bias is removed. Final point, on the bidstat website we have seen a few tenders for app readers of LFT kits, if an app, eg the NHS app performs both these tasks, reads the test via a high resolution camera and makes the call on positive / negative result and then uploads the rest to the NHS da database and issues a vaccine passport these issues are removed and MHRA approval for mass use is unlocked. the only sticking point is using someone you know to be bursting with antibodies to take the test for you and then upload the test.