RE: Extra, Extra! Rapid saliva test whilst eating cornflakes! Top scientist claims! Extra!20 Aug 2020 20:04
More importantly, see the comments regarding the LFt:
Sir John said he wasn't able to give any definitive results of experiments so far, but some are 'terrible' because they have such low accuracy in detecting Covid-19.
A test needs both high specificity and sensitivity in order to detect true cases of Covid-19 without producing false negatives or positives.
Sir John said: 'As you won't be surprised, some of these are terrible tests so you'd never use them.
But some look pretty interesting. And at £5 pounds a pop, with high sensitivity, say 90 per cent, and high specificity, which may be in high 90s, they could really work.
'That's basically what we are thinking of at the moment. The validation is still ongoing so I don't want to pre-empt the decision. But we've seen enough now that we believe this may well be possible as a routine form of regular testing.'
Coupe the above with the tech transfer to bbi. Who else has transfered the tech to a mass producer??