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MrA, last post info dated at 26th Jan 21

MrA, from my notes:
https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1524/default/
Public Accounts Committee
Oral evidence: COVID-19: Test, track and trace (part 1), HC 932
Monday 18 January 2021
David Williams: If it helps, from the procurement over the summer of the three tests that you have already mentioned, Mr Wild, we bought 384 million tests. We have just made a direct award for a further 239 million tests, which will be delivered from now through to mid-February, in advance of delivery through a tender process of up to a further 200 million tests from mid-February through to early March.
Then elsewhere in same doc...
David Williams: We are moving more into tenders. We have been running a tender for 200 million lateral flow devices, which reached an important decision stage on Friday last week.
Friday “last week” was 15 Jan.
Looks like Innova have just won another one!
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3b89909b-838d-4383-98f1-2dccec8f30df
374M + 239M tests = 613M tests.
At £10 (???) a test that's over £6B!!
£6 BILLION!!
Is this why the Innova tests are being repackaged!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9127345/UK-coronavirus-Department-Health-rebranding-professional-use-kit-self-test.html

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PD info will be subject to NDA.
Does not look good for the boffins.
On the flip side, if they were going to go with Innova, perhaps they would already be doing so..

So Bodes well for Avacta.

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Looking at the lateralflowtest.co.uk/certifications:

* The MHRA 'approval' merely states that the manufacturer, 'ACON Biotech (Hangzhou) Co Ltd' and its test, are Registered. The letter from the MHRA specifically states, "Please note this letter does not represent any form of accreditation, certification or approval by the UK Competent
Authority.". To call this MHRA approval looks misleading.
* The amount of virus is specified using Ct value, which is not an absolute scale.
* There is a claim about detecting new variants, but the results do not include data about variants.

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https://twitter.com/paimadhu/status/1398486254098989064?s=20

Imac1 thanks
4/5p on oil shows (x3.3)
and 8/10p on conformation of commercial oil quantities. (x6.6)

Any target price if oil is present?

Diplomat65, that RNS on BAMS was a result of researchers from this BB posting the information FIRST!!

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Been invested here for several years.
What target are our expectations if oil is hit??

They will roll back the lighthouse test facilities and pcr. Its costly and time consuming.
Also when individuals go out into the Community for a test are at risk!
Speed and home testing is the key!
Also if accuracy is present that's all that matters!
After 10 days of self isolation you return to the community with a PCR test.
Regular testing with LFT identifies the start of 10 day self isolation period.
So to conclude use of PCR will be ramped down, if the statistical data in field use shows the sensitivity and specificity is right up to where Sir Al hopes to achieve!

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30 years supply of PPE!
Have you not heard of sell by dates?
LFT also have a sell by date!
It is on public record how many tests the Govt bought (research). More and better LFT's are required.
The Avacta one is the best LFT.
We niw know the statistical sensitivity and specificity from PCR testing in the field.
Question for me is will PCR be required when the Avacta LFT is available or if the Avacta/Mologic LFT is available?
Testing in the field and statistical data will indicate this.
The LFT always had cost, time, mass test capability, home test capability on its side. If it has accuracy sensitivity and specificity), then the Holy Grail is reached.
Its then a question of supply!
That would be a nice position to be in!

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Can you post the Excalibur ce certification?

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Just witnessed the Innova LFT.

No reference to Innova on the packaging.
Good instructions.
The reporting is very mandraulic.
Time consuming.
No doubt everyone does it without complaining.
But boy oh boy it could use an app!

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Has the S&S been validated by clinical trials?
Porton Down?
Are are manufacturers attempting to place unvalidated (by MHRA) products on the market??
What's the idium?
"No test is better than a bad test"

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Just had a quick look at the document, without trying to recreate the numbers:
* PCR test Sensitivity, at 94.8% for the best fit to the data, is better than I have often assumed. Months ago, I was reading that, because of the difficulty of taking Nasopharyngeal swabs, PCR test Sensitivity could be as low as 80%.
* LFD Specificity is excellent.

However, note the Innova test's Clinical Sensitivity, at 50.1%, is utterly miserable, see Tables 3 and 4 of the Government document. Surely this dreadful Sensitivity is also a huge take-away from the Government Document??
Talk about accenting the positive.

The affimer LFT will be much better!!
The Avacta Affimer LFT is THE test with Anterior Nasal.
But we know that don't we!!!

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Haha, thanks for the update!
Looks promising.
Like the sound and the vision of multi bagger opportunities!

Haha, when do you expect RNS to drop from FPP?

Has anyone seen the Surescreen CE documentation?
Is the test assay from UK?

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Daily Mail reporting that British Airways launches rapid Covid-19 test kits from Qured that cost just £33 and can be used anywhere in the world - and MailOnline gets a result from one within 30 minutes. You can also see the importance of a digital test result record via smartphone app!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-9322963/British-Airways-launches-rapid-Covid-19-test-kits-cost-just-33.html

Loks like BA moving away from PCR to rapid antigen testing!
Hopefully, Avacta test being 10-20 minutes speeds up the transfer from Qured to Avacta!

Test data or info on the Qured antigen test anyone?

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