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it wasn't "faulty" per se, in that the control line appeared quickly.

Reading up on gov.uk >99% of the population will have a good antibody response 28 days after the 2nd AZ vaccine dose.
The biosure test has a sensitivity of 98.2%. So going on those figures alone, there is a bigger chance of the biosure test being just wrong, than me not having an antibody response. I've emailed the biosure people regarding it, be interesting to see if they reply.

"Ah what it might be is the antibodies from the vaccine is different to those from actually having caught covid"

The website says it is designed to detect the igG antibodies to the spike protein, which is the same as the the RTC-19 test, which was said to exactly match the response that comes from the AZ vaccine.

ok, after several hours I failed to come up with anything that rhymes with bluekipper 12

good spot Okehurst1

Being the curious type, been wondering how this company can retail the device to home addresses. Colin King has told us that MHRA authorisation only can happen for self/home test if the DHSC asks for it. And that without such authorisation, it can not be sold as a self-test in the UK ?

The biosure website is very clear that they will deliver one-off tests of the biosure product, but need to talk to you first if you want to by the RTC-19, for which they are also an outlet, indicating that they are happy to ship one to individuals but not the other. Their website shows the MHRA logo, and given how professional everything else appears, I get the impression they would not be showing it if they don't have it, HOWEVER they do have a home HIV test using the same items, and that's been around for a long time, so possibly the MHRA logo relates to that.

After a bit of sniffing, I was led to believe that one avenue that might be used was to ship from Northern Ireland. Since Brexit, N.I. has some medical regulatory vagueness, it falls under the EU reg for some stuff, and the test is CE approved in Europe. So was N.I. being used ?

I ordered one to find out. Ordered using tracking so I could see where it came from. Tracking shows that it was depsatched from "home counties North MC" so they are being despatched from England. So none the wiser how they can sell within the uk.

The packing does not show MHRA, it shows CE, confirms that it was made in the UK, and that biosure has a 2021 queens award for innovation. Expires Oct 2022.

Test was extremely easy to use, it would be hard to mess it up.

But here's the kicker, I came back negative for antibodies. The control line showed within a minute. I'm doubled jabbed, with my 2nd AZ jab in mid-May. So there's one of 2 possibilities. Either I'm one of the very very few that did not have an antibody reaction to the AZ vaccine, or the test failed to pick up my antibodies.

images of the test and my result are:-
https://imgur.com/a/5YFmxVC

needs another verse.

SP is red, some said it would blue
the moral of the story is
paddle your own canoe

All facts as I see them. filter takes 2 seconds.

I never promoted or conspired to deliberately waste company time. Never ordered or encouraged others to order boxes of lateral flow tests to throw in the bin. Some self professed 'genuine' long term holders have engaged in that type of behaviour.

And now watch as these same "long term investors" defend their actions. Gawd forbid someone in their view wastes their precious time on here, but hey go ahead and strategise how best to waste an interview slot at the company.

Shocking behaviour, the righteous are showing their true colours. Mind you we did have many people promoting ordering of LFT's just to throw them in the bin to get rid of Innova ones. How well did that turn out ?

its an hr that is lost to interviewing someone that actually wants the job.

bad enough someone wants to waste company time doing a fake interview for a job they have no intention of taking, but others ('long term serious investors' mind you) are piling in with strategies to use during this fake interview.

First time I'm come across a cohort of 'investors' who are deliberately planning to waste company resources.

Have to say, wallbrook have responded extremely promptly to my query this evening. Although the CD4 forward looking figures did not occur in either the full year results or the annual statement, it is in the slide deck:-
https://www.omegadiagnostics.com/Portals/0/ODG%20Final%20Results%20FY21%20Final.pdf
(see slide 17), and in a few other places, apparently going back to the June 2020 presentation relating to the £11M fund raise.

The wallbrook response came in after 9pm this evening, so top marks for that.

"Not sure why Colin thought to make such a point needing to reiterate again"

especially when it was missed out in the annual report and full year results. That video was in November, where he said 3-5 years. Surely today that should be closer to 2-4 years, but still repeating the same timeline.

Well at least they times the tweets well this time, to take the focus away from the further 5 month innova extension. Be worth watching bidstats to see if the value of the next innova contracts starts to diminish.

Looked at both the RNS for the full year results, and the annual statement. In neither do they present forward looking sales figures and revenue for CD4.

Once again the company appears to be using twitter as the sole outlet for price sensitive information. It's pretty shoody.

In Mologic, ODX had a relationship whereby they seemed reasonably keen to give access to their IP for the betterment of society, hence they got access to their antigen test. It might be more difficult to reach amenable terms with other manufacturers who are more commercially driven. Given ODX have said they are happy they can TT from all the parties in the pot, if gov selection is not the issue, then surely it must be a financial one ?

wallbrook have not been ditched, replied to me today.

The "busy" part seems to relate to negotiating and waiting for other outside bodies to progress. Who knew a manufacturer could be so busy without manufacturing anything.

"We are still in positive dialogue with the 3rd parties introduced by the DHSC with regards to utillising our capacity to supply DHSC. We're optimistic that we'll reach a successful outcome"

That sound like DHSC has said "we will take any one of these test if you can reach agreement, get on with it". So DHSC has acted as an introducer, but its between ODX and whoever to reach a deal for ODX to make a test. And if no one wants ODX to get a hand in the cookie jar ? Note, no longer the messaging of "we await HMG to select a test"

"We're optimistic that we'll reach a successful outcome", doesn't exactly exude confidence of "its when, not if" from the rooftops.

...and no timeframe in the last week of Aug.

""TW - This doesn’t seem like optional to me…
“Daily rapid lateral flow tests will need to be taken for 10 days as a precaution”
""

Indeed, it is clearly mandatory. But that covers around 1.5M out of the UK population.

Okehurst1, will have more in a couple of days.

cue the daily/weekly countdown to the 31 Jan 2022.

In regard to the "daily testing of contacts is not covered by this authorisation", its hard to keep up with the ever changing position, but my understanding is that there is no requirement to do daily testing if you are a close contact, especially for the double vaccinated. It may be advised, but not required. In fact many people are removing the app these days as they mistakenly see it as just an annoyance.