RE: The kitchen sink24 May 2021 18:35
Hi shearclass I think if you read through poidster's posts he alludes to this I'll part post from him dated 11th feb(I've trawled through as you've added a lot to the debate:)
The ppl who I'm in contact with are more than happy with it now.
Staff are being trained, all finding it easy to use. It's passed internal validation, just now planning to introduce it into the routine testing program.
The only hiccup is that it uses dry swabs as opposed to swabs in viral transport media (vtm) which so they are targeting particular patient and staff cohorts to use the equipment with.
So its all good, again though the I wouldn't expect a sharp jump in testing numbers, it will rise more and more as more of them come on line.
Apart from the main stream large analysers, its far and away better than any of the new analysers that have been introduced by the gov in terms of usability, capacity and accuracy.
I've heard numbers of 1200 individual tests for 2 machines in a 24 hrs shift.
I only have a limited snapshot of ppl who are actually using this but wouldn't expect massive deviations away from this.
Hope this helps.