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I hope they don’t buy too many, it’d be a shame to throw them in the bin when the test they actually need turns up. Nice to see the govt considering immunity passports whilst the WHO warn strongly against them.

THE first coronavirus antibody test kit that could help ease lockdown in the UK has been given the go-ahead by Public Health England.

No10 is now keen to get their hands on "as many of these as possible" after the potentially game-changing kit was developed by Swiss healthcare company Roche.

The test was given the seal of approval by PHE's Porton Down facility last week - with the government now in talks to buy millions of the kit, The Telegraph reports.

Roche is said to be on standby to provide hundreds of thousands of laboratory-based tests to the NHS each week.

Recent efforts to produce antibody tests have been plagued by inaccurate results - but PHE has backed Roche Diagnostics' claims its new test can spot 100 per cent of those who have had the virus with "no false negatives".

The test supports the detection of antibodies in patients who have been exposed to coronavirus and will therefore be immune from catching the bug again.

They will be instrumental in the UK lifting strict lockdown measures and allow people to return to work - with the government even suggesting granting "immunity passports" to those who pass the test.

'POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER'

Professor John Newton, the national coordinator of the UK Coronavirus Testing Programme, said: "We were confident that good quality antibody tests would become available when they were needed.

"Last week, scientific experts at PHE Porton Down carried out an independent evaluation of the new Roche SARS-CoV-2 serology assay in record time, concluding that it is a highly specific assay with specificity of 100 per cent.

"This is a very positive development, because such a highly specific antibody test is a very reliable marker of past infection. This in turn may indicate some immunity to future infection, although the extent to which the presence of antibodies indicates immunity remains unclear."

Steve Brine, a former health minister, branded the move a "potential game-changer" and urged the government to move quickly if the science is correct.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11618035/coronavirus-antibody-test-public-health-england/

There’s also a grown up article with less pictures in the telegraph, but it’s behind a paywall. Apparently this antibody test is a game changer. They’ll wet themselves when they hear about an antigen test

Or days... :-D

Up and up

Because they’ve only done some testing in a lab and so heated it up to represent being present in a person. They failed, so the update isn’t a good one, they need to validate their test on people and they’re looking for a third party. They’ve also said they’re rethinking how they test.

I’m not sure our competition have a clue what they’re doing....

Get angered? Calm down dear.... Rome wasn’t built in a day but it exists, no harm in trying to understand how big it is. Especially when we’ve heard of the number of tests that are needed and the likely margins.

Try buy and hold, you’ll make it back up soon enough

Probably out at 40p, seems a bit bitter.

Volcano: “Avacta in and out few times but don't like the BB there”.

How very rude... you post here more than anywhere else. What brings you back?

The country has been in lockdown way longer than the incubation period. Yes the r value is currently still lingering just below 1. So it has to be circulating somewhere. There’s a minority of idiots that didn’t stay at home, but otherwise it’s got to be hospitals, care homes, supermarkets etc. Testing of everyone has to be the ambition to get on top of the r value and make tracking worthwhile

I’d be delighted to stand corrected and find out we’ve a 100% accurate test!

If that was true we’d dominate the global market, which govt is going to say ‘oops sorry, we could only lay our hands on the 80% tests, fingers crossed everyone’. I’d have thought they’d join a queue for ‘the best’.

I’m also nervous as I’m waiting for funds to add some more. The current price action is good for me, here’s hoping it lasts until next week.

It’d be a lot easier with our test...

Here you go, Candlestick posted it earlier...
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86419

No testing is 100%, if a swab isn’t taken correctly you’ll end up with a false negative. Anything that comes close and enables mass testing will be transformational from where we are now. Good job we’re invested in Avacta

Take your cash out of here once our test is in production and short Quidel :-)

Who is going to want a 15 minute 80% sensitivity test that requires specialist equipment if you can have a 10 min saliva 95%+ (?) test?

Quidel’s inferior product has rocketed their share price by $6Bn. Just saying. Thought that fact deserved its own thread...

Worth pointing out that Quidel’s share price has TRIPLED on the prospects of their 80% sensitivity test. I’m not a caps lock fan, but that’s insane. It’s jumped by (more caps needed....) SIX BILLION due to a test that’s worse than ours.

This board gets more crackers by the day