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Just one small request in recognition if you’d be so kind, could I have a polite cricket clap for reaching the ton please?

Have they not packed in and stopped trying to develop it yet? I thought they’d decided not to bother as it’s officially too late? Covid has gone hasn’t it?

Anyway, after my day working from home as that’s the advice from the govt I think I’ll now head to the shops, queue whilst socially distancing and wearing a mask and then join the socially distanced queue to be served by someone behind a perspex screen using contactless to minimise physical contact and then head home to unpack and wash my hands. Just every day perfectly normal stuff.

It’s a brilliant club, Rob, we’ll have a great time in these green boxes, you can say any old sh.t. Looks like you’ve already got the hang of it.

Good stuff TL. Just managed to find this... Prototype within weeks and for sale in September, so similar timeframes.

OraSure’s test will utilize a long swabbing device that resembles a miniature canoe paddle. A porous pad at its tip will be swiped between the cheek and gum, then placed in a tube with a preset amount of developing solution.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/bethlehem-firm-e2-80-99s-spit-test-for-covid-19-is-coming-closer/ar-BB16nNC6

So, we’re all agreed... No competition, apart from the competitors that we’ve found?

Ha! Tantalisingly close...

Nice one RD, I couldn’t make that one out as their logo is sh.t. Their website has nowt on it either, but I did find this...

https://www.businessinsider.com/difference-between-coronavirus-antibody-and-antigen-test-2020-5?r=US&IR=T

Swab. Phew....

Happy for the bump Canute, but only with the addendum that the Spit Stick might make it to market a few months after us.

The positive from that is that the UK govt are sat ready and waiting so hopefully this means they’ll be as keen as Awacta to have a load of LFDs sent out for validation which should speed things up.

Morning woody, thanks.

Lighthouse Labs are working on high throughout testing which is great, but still lab based. As Chengdo has mentioned, the aptamer group look increasingly dead in the waste water. The company they were previously partnered with are still faffing about so haven’t even made a start - https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/BRH/further-re-paraytec-limited-6k4lkwg3kf51y2a.html

I can see what the COO is thinking, but he’s no Sir Al

I’m just back on form, normal service has been resumed. Those few minutes off the naughty step were wonderful. One day, Timster, one day...

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/04/10/scientists-developing-covid-19-test-knows-youre-sick-you-do

Aiming for October. Turns out there is competition. That’s awkward, could you all take back your recs? :-)

Without any magic affimers, I suspect they’ll take longer or fail, but that’s the only one I’ve managed to find so far.

Here’s another link for your delectation: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21277347/covid-19-testing-at-home-accuracy

‘ Demmer acknowledges it might be a pipe dream, but his vision is to have these sorts of rapid tests at every hospital and health clinic and even at the door to every business for employees and customers alike’.
‘ Even if rapid tests meet all of these criteria, they are likely still many months away. Of the antigen tests, for example, David Walt, a professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told CNBC that he expects it would probably be four to six months before they would be given FDA authorization.’
Written a month ago. Many months? If only they knew...

50 secs in... https://www.cbsnews.com/video/possible-breakthrough-in-arizona-covid-19-testing-efficiency-could-turn-the-tide/#x

Lab test with one day day turnaround.

Aaaw Mikey... It took me ages though. Sigh.

Lovely response. Shucks, you guys! Here’s hoping to more depressing episodes by MrS giving me an opportunity to cheer him up.

Don’t panic toaster, it’s just all my alt accounts and the rest of the crew.

Don’t worry, it’ll get picked up using the Integumen device. Never referred to any of mine as exceptional.

I fully understand why you were having a moan. It turns out ‘a few weeks’ is quite a long time, but when you consider what will hopefully be achieved an extra week or two won’t matter.

MrSpeculator’s moan inspired me to do some further research, so credit to him for saying we’re at risk of losing early mover advantage and we need to get a move on or we’ll be overtaken etc etc, grumble, whinge.

Earlier today Awacta tweeted this article:
https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observations/index.php/rapid-inexpensive-home-testing-for-covid-19-may-get-us-out-of-this-mess-before-a-vaccine/2020/07/05/

Scroll down and you’ll see a graphic containing logos of the other companies that have developed or are developing a rapid test. Google them. Please. Just in case I’ve made an error.

I can’t see any other company on the planet that have developed or are anywhere near developing a pregnancy style saliva test. There is simply no competition and zero risk of falling behind. All the tests listed need swabs or bits of kit.

Awacta are the only company developing a test capable of mass screening. Let that sink in.

Awacta have also tweeted that a test that meets the guidelines of 80% if deployed frequently enough would beat PCR testing for effectiveness, especially considering the issues with swab samples. Now imagine a 90% LFD. Or even a high performing 95% test. Then consider if it’s worth being patient.

I’ve always felt that we wouldn’t get a huge proportion of the LFD market, that competition would emerge. That list suggests otherwise, we’re currently at no risk at all of missing out or of not becoming the dominant player. The scale of the opportunity shouldn’t be underestimated.

Covid is going nowhere: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103046/new-coronavirus-covid19-cases-number-worldwide-by-day/

The best things come to those who wait.

NSR for me

I got as far as ‘for those who care’. Quite proud, not gonna lie

It’s great research, it shows that regular LFT testing of at least every 3 days pretty much reduces community transmission to nil. Best revisit your calcs for demand... if Trump agrees, and he desperately needs to do something as it’s rampant in the US, that’s a lorra lorra tests. Add in the rest of the globe. Mass screening of populations every three days. That’s well over 1.4Bn tests a month ;-)

Be in no doubt, the only constraint to Awacta’s ability to bring in huge sums of money is manufacturing constraints.