RE: Finncap valuations research on 14/7/202019 Jul 2020 10:48
I though these two things are the same:
From the reporting:
Dr Chris Hand, the leader of the UK-RTC and chairman of Abingdon Health, revealed that the new UK-made test passed its first major clinical trial last month, involving nearly 300 people and conducted by scientists at Ulster University.
"It was found to be 98.6 per cent accurate, and that's very good news," Dr Hand told the newspaper.
From the RNS
With regards to the test performance, an evaluation of pilot batch products showed a test sensitivity of 100% (95% confidence interval 92.6% to 100%) and specificity of 98.4% (95% confidence interval 95.4% to 99.7%). These figures have been calculated following analysis of a total of 186 samples taken from individuals pre-September 2019 (negatives) and 48 patients who had symptoms of COVID19, a positive PCR result for the virus or both. Results are from analyses performed at the University of Ulster and Abingdon Health laboratories and follow an earlier analysis at Imperial College, London of 188 positive samples using pre-design freeze devices which showed a 95.7% sensitivity.
If the population is assumed to have a 10% incidence of COVID19, the AbC-19 pilot batch test shows a 98.6% accuracy