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Lateral flow tests: Health chiefs probe ‘high number’ of positive rapid Covid tests followed by negative PCRs
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Please spare a thought for my very tired NHS colleagues working their socks off over Christmas - indeed all people working over Christmas! Stay safe. Here's to a great Novacyt Year ahead!
The Pfizer vaccine is only a problem for people with severe allergies. Most people with allergies don't fall into this category. I get asked about allergies everytime I have a flu jab. I have a few but they are not relevant to flu vaccine & won't be to Covid-19 vaccines either. I'm 49, immunocompromised and suffering from long Covid. I will definitely be getting the vaccine as I'm not sure my body will cope with catching Covid again. It's an evil virus. But everyone must make their own personal decision- just please base it on accurate info from a medical professional....not Dave on Twitter!! :-)
That's for running the Winterplex assay that tests for SARS-CoV-2, Flu A, Flu B or RSV infections. That's why it takes longer. The Covid test is quicker as it's only looking for one virus. Such misinformation flying around.....
Had a patient yesterday whose covid test result took 5 days to come back as positive......at this stage of a pandemic that's just incomprehensible. We have to manage 3 streams-non-covid patients, covid patients & those needing results. All separately with social distancing & beds closed to enable it. It's a nightmare......
What will give this share short term stability (and rise to the levels it should be at!) is winning a decent slice of the Microbiology Framework tender. This is for the whole array of diagnostic testing supplies, services as well as development. Microgen have won a small slice in the past so bodes well now the whole of Novacyt products are very prominent for PHE to see. The reputation we have built will see us in good stead. This will secure post-covid sales which is what we need to demonstrate to the market. Feet on the ground though as there are many other companies who have won parts of this tender before and NHS labs contain competitors kit. I work in an acute hospital and if we could bring down the time that it takes for diagnostic test results to come back then the quicker we can get patients on the right treatment, get them well and on their way home. A rapid responsive diagnostic system in every hospital saves lives and will save huge sums of money. Novacyt aren't going to win all of that but they are showing the way in rapid testing and the Government are understanding what that means in the bigger picture. Elderly patients rapidly decondition when stuck in a hospital bed and then subsequently need more care when and if they can go home. If rapid test results can shorten stays then the Health & social care budget goes much further. Novacyt will also strengthen with a non-covid acquisition to expand their product range. Vaccines were always going to happen - Novacyt is much more than Covid testing - but covid testing is it's launch pad. How much of the Framework tender we can get will demonstrate that. IMO obvs!
Not sure if this has already been said but this kind of means saliva tests aren't going to work though if everyone uses mouth wash and it could give people who don't want to test positive a possible way out and a very dangerous one at that!
If you have a patient with a respiratory illness arrive at hospital they will be tested for all respiratory illnesses as diagnosis is important for treatment & knowing the clinical path the illness will take. Before Covid patients are tested with respiratory panel tests for 20 viruses (influenza, adenovirus, rsv, existing coronaviruses) e.g. Biofire respiratory panel. Biofire have now added Covid-19 to this. Why? Because hospitals need/demand these tests. That's why the Winterplex by Novacyt has been created....because there is demand for it.
Captain Stanley - read up on things....knowledge is so much better than conjecture.
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:17512-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=1
This is a link to a previous award for PHE Microbiology framework. This is for Lot 2 Development. If you scroll down to the awards you'll find Microgen were awarded part of contract (doesn't give values) but so were many other companies. Usual suspects! Let's hope it's a bigger pie slice this time round. :-)
The Randox contract is for the provision of lab services.....not tests.....https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2020/W45/738197593
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Is there any feeling that care home contract is waiting for next development of q machines - lined tubes - which would simplify operation?
What are you spider-senses saying??!!
Thanks
P.S. you are a legend!
Test and Trace looks likely to hit its 500,000 daily covid testing target, after declaring huge leaps in NHS labs capacity over three days.
On Sunday the reported total NHS capacity was 83,164 – on Monday this leapt to 134,112, then on Wednesday the figure was 161,869, a near doubling since the weekend.
A source involved in the testing programme said it was because new diagnostic equipment and supplies, of several kinds, had gone to labs over recent weeks, and a lot of it was declared by NHS England this week, ahead of the 31 October deadline.https://www.hsj.co.uk/coronavirus/nhs-doubles-covid-test-capacity-in-three-days-as-tandt-looks-set-to-hit-500k-target/7028726.article?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRka01HSmxOREl3WWpWaSIsInQiOiJkTWhPMEJHeGowNVR6VGdaV1hYeG0yd2ZmUzNcLzgrUDRTSnBZN2tEOTVoWEh1eTFNQjNCcXpXVEF3UTRWaGpWeDlkZU45eXhDd05ISWdcL3NxUzRxeU1Ebnd3T0Y1VFRmRW9QMEkxSm9lY1hoMUFRQXAwV3FPTnV2QjBqcjBQTTZqIn0%3D