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Mid to late 30's Cautious. Could be wrong. Will wait for Robbo.
I started going grey in my late 20's, so kind of warped my judgement age wise :-)

Same quietly spoken voice, kind of a shy reticence. Feck me, should have took him for a pint.
Let's see what Robbo says.

Calling on Robbo!
Was this the guy we spoke to today? Christian Stephenson - Chief Development Officer Medusa19.
I think it was, but I won't call it until you confirm (because I don't want to make a twat of myself).
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=626686341553503

One last point, as don't want to bore the pants off...which I'm sure I've done already :-)

As I said earlier, the guy said to us both, "I wish I did have more tests, we need the numbers"...therein lies a clue?

*Didsbury
So, to answer your question, I think they would have been confident of numbers turning up, since I think they had a ready feed from vacc centre. So, does point to usability on balance, but the jury's out as they say.

I did wonder if some of the people had been directed there from the vaccination centre. It would have been easy for the vacc people to just ask attendees if they wanted to take part in a study. In fact, thinking back he did ask me "have you come from bla, bla", but I didn't properley hear what he'd said. I said "No, I've just come from Didsbuty". And, I actually rocked up first at the vacc centre, where a lady in yellow jacket directed me to the study building (so, vacc lady knew about the study).

@Pigster
Yeh, I was wondering what he could have meant when he said the study has gone really well. No exaggeration, he looked proper pleased with himself. Obviously, he couldn't have been talking about S&S, since the data wouldn't be available yet (if in fact the study included S&S analysis at all). He was too enthusiastic to be just talking about the numbers that turned up, so, by process of elimination, I suspect he was talking about the usability, which he could have gauged from a quick scan through the questionnaires.

That would have been a great Q Pigster. Don't think they'd have given useability info. Just all happened so fast, no time to prepare...and the senility doesn't help.

The tests are flying of the shelves already Soleboy.
Can't get a test for love nor money.
Scaredy_catski

Robbo, are you on linkedin? When I go to linkedin and click 'View all 20 employees', it takes me to the login page. I'm not a member, so can't get further than that. Regret not asking the guy's name now, after he took my name and phone number.

He certainly didn't say it in the manner of giving a clue. It just slipped out. He was quite hesitant, as though the question had put him on the spot. Don't recall having made any mention of Avacta at that point. It was early on in the proceedings. I've no idea where the tests came from, but I suppose it's quite plausible they came from Avacta, Cambridge via GAD. Kind of makes sense, since GAD's relationship is with Avacta, so you wouldn't expect GAD to send them directly to Medusa.

It was pretty easy Mowzerrocks, we both looked like children in a sweet shop. Also, we were the only ones left in the queue.

Robbo, I actually levelled with the guy in the end. Told him we'd both been invested in Avacta for about a year and the guys on the BB would be disappointed that we hadn't got a result out of it :-)

Yes, Ndn, It appeard to me the lady from Medusa was there in a supervisory role. As I say, she didn't move from her side of the table the whole time. The two women I mentioned doing the test, were filling out what seemed like a lot of paperwork.

Just remembered, on that science park there was a vaccination centre up and running...a couple of buildings away. Seemed a strange coincidence to me, almost suggesting that there's some kind of govt hand in this. Maybe can't read too much into that, though.

Rephrase that, I think it's very highly likely that was the Avacta test.

Will have a look later sisu. By the way, the guy was really good humoured, professional and knew his stuff. Was very impressed with him. And finally, there's no way in this world that wasn't the Avacta test.

Asked him if I could take a photo of the test. He said he couldn't allow that, more than his jobs worth, or something. Told me it was a blind study. He said they have a number of tests, I said I know, but it can't be that protein test you've been pretending is an antigen test. He laughed again.

I'd say the guy was middle management, defo worked for Medusa, mid to late 30's, he even mentioned Kumani at one point (however you spell it)...Really knew his stuff re: viral loads / CT values. The two ladies sat at a table taking the last two tests, looked like they were self-swabbing. When I say that, I can't say they definately self-swabbed (because I was busy talking to your man), but the two of them were sat on one side of a pretty wide table, with the Medusa lady sat opposite. Didn't see the Medusa lady make any movement whatsoever whilst I was there, so can only deduce self-swab.

Ok, back now. Just give some more details whilst it's fresh in my head. In no particular order.

When he told us he'd run out of tests, I said "sure you can't find anymore". He said "just wait" and nipped out of the room for a bit. Came back and said "sorry lads, we don't have any left. Wish we did because we need the numbers". I said "Can't you nip out and get some more? Where are the tests, Liverpool?". He looked a bit taken aback by that and he hesitatingly said "Err, no, somewhere in Cambridgeshire, I think"

Asked him what the read time was. He said "20 minutes". Then I said "Don't you get a decent read after 10 minutes, though". He said "Well it depends how much virus there is. Do you know about viral loads?". I said "Yeh, I know a bit about ct values and I know that the Avacta test is 100% at ct<27". He started laughing. He said "Well, you get a very clear read line pretty quickly when the person's got a high viral load". (sorry, guys, I regret not asking him to put a number of minutes on that, but the way he said it made it sound pretty quick to me). I then said to him "It pretty much blows Mologic out of the water, doesn't it". He started laughing again.

Perhaps the most encouraging thing I took from that is when he said with a really pleased look on his face "The study has gone really well". It was like he couldn't wait to tell me and Robbo that (he looked pretty pleased, didn't he Robbo). What was more impressive was that he volunteered that information early on and we hadn't even asked him about the success or otherwise of the study.

Need a brew and a fag. Will update if I remember other stuff.