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It’s a sad day for this country when buying British becomes a crime. It’s almost like they’re complaining that we didn’t give the Chinese a fair crack of the whip. Really plsses me off this kind of thing.

Neutronic: At the time of the last RNS we had two LFT tests in development, but it wasn't described as being a 'programme'. A programme implies something more substantive, coordinated and focused, with pre-determined endpoints. Just sounds to me like they may have crystalised more clearly what direction they're going in with these two tests. Here's hoping anyway!

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1536

There you go...

Sorry, the link changed. Will try to find it again.

Computer909:

Here's a little article about the man himself.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/news

"In addition, the Group has made excellent recent progress with its SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow rapid antigen test programme and we anticipate data from the first clinical trial soon."

I wouldn't be surprised if Avacta were involved in the upcoming schools trials in January. I've been focusing on two words in the above sentence from the RNS, "recent" and "programme". AS didn't really have to use the word "recent" in that sentence, but he did. It's almost as if he couldn't resist giving us a clue that something quite significant happened recently - could that recent thing be signing up for clinical validation at schools in January? Also, his use of the word "programme" implies something bigger and broader than any words he's previously used to describe the LFT test(s) - you would certainly describe involvement in a school testing exercise as being a programme.

Continuing with the donkey theme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21mLECfpv3M
I'm guessing AS has a similar method of time-keeping.

On a literary theme, remember that guy Mark Chapman who shot John Lennon and was found to be carrying a copy of 'Catcher in The Rye'. I'm just imaging PL standing over AS's dead body outside the Dakota building, with a stack of Avacta RNS's under his arm.

To be fair to AS and Avacta, they are trying to develop a best in class rapid LFT - unobtrusive sample method with high S&S. No other company in the world, as far as I know, have developed such a test to date. So, it's not like Avacta have been beaten to market by loads of other companies who've achieved this feat. And yes, the argument goes, we should have had a less exquisite test out there a couple of months ago, and followed up with a Mark II version. But, that would have left us open to the same kind of flack that Innova are getting now. Imagine Innova now coming out with a Mark II version. Having destroyed all credibility with the Mark I version, do you think they would have market traction with their Mark II offering?

Also, AS being a bit of a perfectionist and wanting to protect his favourite 'child' (PreCision), he was never going to risk the companies reputation with a half baked offering. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." - WB

Apparently, Mrs Smith is also getting a bit tired of Al's dithering when she's feeling a bit frisky:
Be with you shortly
I'm making good progress...delighted with the progress!
Ahead of schedule
I'm looking forward to
I will announce in due course
Very soon
Will be shipping shortly!

Or more succinctly gbk:

22nd April 2020
within the next few weeks.
to Cytiva shortly
in only four weeks and well ahead of schedule.

On 11th May Smith said:
today shipping
begin test development

On 20th May 2020 Smith said:
I am looking forward to

On 24th June 2020 Smith said:
delighted with the progress
very soon
in due course

Sorry, couldn't resist that....

“The round of testing will also help to tackle the one in three who have the virus but do not have symptoms, so could be spreading the disease unknowingly.”

Just wondering who's test will be used for this exercise. It's a bit late for a fully competitive tender for a January start, and you have to assume it's not Innova (since, can't imagine they would claim that the Innova test tackles the asymptomatic problem). Also, don't think that the govt have so far bought any 'newly invented' tests , according to bidstats history. So, are we going to see a huge 'directly awarded' tender between now and the end of the year?

It’s been discussed on Avacta board for a good few days now. The govt will re-issue the tender soon. Speculation is that it’s been cancelled because the govt want to wait for these ‘newly invented’ tests (Matt H’s words), since they’ve received so much flack over the inaccurate Innova tests.

If that’s true, it puts Mologic, Avacta and Surescreen in the frame for being successful when the new tender is published. It’s a good thing, since it’s bought these UK suppliers of LFT’s time to get approvals, TT’s etc, completed.

Kaylinblue: That is the contract that the government just cancelled.

Just imagine the furor if AS sends somebody a Christmas card that's got Merry Christmas on the front. We'll be heading off to the moon then!

Her Majesty will probably see how it goes with the corgis first.

Interesting post from hydrogen (ODX board):

My close friend runs a GP practice. She is currently tasked with vaccinating the over 80's...

The programme started this week... BUT She's floored by the fact that there's a 76% non compliance rate so far... these vaccine doses are prescribed for over 80's only and they are mostly refusing to have it... WTF?

If this pattern is repeated nationally, with a such a short shelf life, 100,000s of vaccine doses will be wasted, as the Local Health Authority won't permit her to give them to any other group. More crazy UK gov Covid madness personified.

Sorry, the 81 year old's name is William Shakespeare.

Did you know that the second person to receive the Pfizer vaccine was an 81 year old guy from Coventry? Here's a bit more from the man himself.

To swab or not to swab, that is the question:
Whether 'tis in nose or throat to suffer
The sticks and buds of outrageous nurses,
Or to take ours from a sea of saliva

Everybody should brace themselves for a full onslaught from MB tonight, if this keeps up.