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"I think you enjoy being the pantomime villain?"
Oh nooo I don't :)

That list, with a few entries aside that are specifically for the happy clappers, is frankly what most of us are doing these days.

I'm surprised bighero didn't note what bighero posted only a few days ago

"Bighero senses a busy week at Alva. The car park will look splendid and be bursting at the seams. There is a £17m machine that will be switched on by King Colin King in his lab coat and hat. All hands to the pump and even Colin will be pouching and those tests at a furious rate. Steaming like a hot kettle. Old Joe from the USofA needs those premium Scottish tests."

Maybe bighero doesn't always tell bighero that sometimes bighero posts are sarcastic ?

djframboise...I refer you to number 10

as opposed to just the right amount of tumbleweeds ??

1) Check for a significant RNS (yeah, best to get the unlikely one out of the way first thing)

2) Check bidstats for "lateral flow tests"... no new hits for Omega...ignore any new big contracts for others, DEFINITELY don't post about them.

3) Check gov website for phase3a passes....PAGE UPDATED ! nothing changed :(

4) Check FDA approval website....nothing new

5) Google "Mologic", Google "GAD", nothing new

6) Google "Omega"...hey we are supplying a school in New Orleans...post it immediately...don't do ANY checking on it whatsoever.

7) Google "bill gates to buy Omega".... "No results found for "bill gates to buy omega"."

8) Check twitter for any old crap from any unknown source....no matter how obsurd, post it, retweet it, send it by carrier pigeon, etch into two tablets.

9) Check the date, see if it's nearly time to post a thread " I think (insert month here) is going to be really exciting for odx"

10) Go to LSE, hope someone else has found something...nope, ok then ***** about someone, that always goes down well with 'the crowd'

11) Check an ascii art website for something new, 'cause like ascii art was really funny in the 80s & 90s on fixed width black and white text terminals and so relevant today, and with not finding anything of use, may as well disrupt the board a bit further by posting some crap, or maybe post a poem, talk about bikes/walking shoes, or post link to a song.

Anything you want to share about, you know, the actual company that this forum is designed for ? If so you are keeping it a good secret, your history shows that all you ever do is whinge about other people...exactly why do you bother coming here, anyway, not a single original though about ODX, just *****ing about other people.

Need to change you name to "dont have a scooby-doo"

Not so good that people don’t bother their arse to read a few comments before posting the same rampy crap that anyone with with an ounce of sense would know doesn’t add up.

The lack of knowledge some have in a share they are supposed to own is frightening, but then again if you don’t read the posts….or filter others I guess you just stay in your lovely self made reality bubble.

its like deja vu all over again.

"I can only conclude that Mr Gates must be trying to buy Omega. "

Yes..that's the reason :O

it might be interesting, but a fat lot of good it'll do for shareholders

For the screen4 test to be nailing on 4th of oct for supplying ODX LFT antigen test involves pre knowledge that the ODX test can be issued for self-test in the uk on that date, sales agreement signed, stock received or secured ready for distribution.

if you think that screen4 has this level of sureity, and ODX shareholders have not been informed of regulartory approval (never mind the sales contract), you conclude that ODX has it's regulatory responsibilities very badly confused.

"Not sure whose test it is but very well could be ours."

Of all the tests it "very well could be", it could be any of the 30+ test that MHRA have listed on their website that have passed 3a validation (updated today, no new additions). Or it indeed could be any other test that is not listed on the MHRA website, but screen4 knows for sure that they will be able to issue it on the 4th of oct for home use.

Updated phase3a webpage
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessment-and-procurement-of-coronavirus-covid-19-tests/outcome-of-the-evaluation-of-rapid-diagnostic-assays-for-specific-sars-cov-2-antigens-lateral-flow-devices

The whole point of the latest gen of LFTs that the people use it themselves.

Eazy, so you think screen4 is selling a professional use LFT test, for joe bloggs to go on holiday ?

Do they have to bring a nurse with them ?

it is, he is making a massive jump that screen4's antigen test is an ODX one. A company confirming that a test will be available in 2 weeks time, without the ODX test having self-test approval, says to most reasonable people that it is not the ODX test.

the rtc test was ce approved in sept 2020, but its entry says it was updated may of this year
https://covid-19-diagnostics.jrc.ec.europa.eu/devices/detail/1992

Anthonyw

its been ce marked since Dec 2020

"What we need to do now is, after you've been double vaccinated, you should actually get the virus. "

I understand the underlying sentiment, but given some double vaxxed people will still die if they get covid, do you take the small chance (maybe bigger depending on age, conditions, viral load, and probably some stuff we don't know) that you'll end up dead or with long covid, or do you continue to try to stop getting it.

I wonder has it now been concluded by those in the know, that even if every single person has good vaxx protection, the infectiousness of covid and the ability of covid to infect and/or make ill a proportion of vaxxed people, is such that covid will not get to such a low R number that it dies out .

There are few different things in here.

is the strategy right...i.e. is dosing everyone with vaccine just pushing a bigger problem down the line.

Are the vaccines safe

Most of these things ultimately come down to whether you trust the decisions the experts are making or not.

For example on strategy, you might say doesn't giving the flu vaccine year after year just eventually lead to an really bad flu that kills 100ks in the UK 1 year. It hasn't so far, but can you take that and extrapolate to covid...i've no idea, but then like the rest of us I'm just a layman.

Is it right to compare the carefulness of prescribing antibotics with the ease of giving vaccines, well i know one is for bacterial and the other for virus, but does that mean/not mean that you can make different decisions...dunno.

Safety...I think this is relatively well sorted from what I've read, and been informed by a few people I know that work in tangential areas of chemistry. My understanding is that there hasn't been a history of a vaccine ending up with long term side effects, side effects present early on, within a few weeks. I understand that the pizer and moderna vaccines are using a novel technique, so maybe historic data can not be extrapolated to those.

Unfortunately, like anything in science, there will always be a body of people (and often times people well respected in their field) that tell you the opposite of what the general community of scientist are tell you, and you can be sure that history will show that sometimes that smaller body was right. But history will also show that a vast majority of time, the main body was right. We are in different times now to, with almost unlimited swaths of money up for grabs for vaccine companies, or associated treatments.

It still comes down to whether you trust those making the decisions to be doing so honourably and with the best public heath at heart, and on good data. Because you and I can do all the reading in the world, but you don't become an expert from googling stuff.

BigBangs, isn' it in part logistics and surity of result ?

To dial in an LFT test into the decision making of getting a booster, you need every person eligible for a booster to take an LFT. So logistically, you don't want people sitting around a vaccination centre waiting 10 mins for a result, so this is something that would be done at home. You can't read an LFT after an hr or so, so the person themselves read the result and make the decision not to get a booster.

The colour line chart is such a complication that they are only advising it for research, so you are back to a simple line/no line. So the question is, is the faintest of faint lines enough to determine a person doesn't need a booster ?

At the moment I don't think any professional body or gov have come out and said you can deduce anything from having an antibody LFT result in a largely vaccinated country. In a largely unvaccinated one, an antibody result means you have antibodies from a previous infection, which there is data now that indicates this is strong protection (although there are the odd reports of people catching covid twice). CK said this very thing in the July RNS, and stated that he did not see big take-up for antibody LFTs in countries that had a good vaccination programme.

Takeiteasy.

"Twatcher, apologies, you're right. They will have been in discussion with companies who produce self test approved tests. The delays must be caused by any number of other reasons, "

Such as ?