FDA Issues Emergency Authorization on Game-Changing 5-Minute COVID-19 Test

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https://www.westernjournal.com/fda-issues-emergency-authorization-game-changing-5-minute-covid-19-test/

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[bootstrap]

Hmm, how accurate can it be with several types of coronavirus and DNA amplification that would also amplify the % of virus.

Friends in the medical field are claiming accurate tests would take significant time to perform and the current tests "are a joke."

[as_rocketman]

Surely it won't hurt. There are numerous other competing tests and vendors, though. I've lost track of them all.

Hmm, how accurate can it be with several types of coronavirus and DNA amplification that would also amplify the % of virus.

Friends in the medical field are claiming accurate tests would take significant time to perform and the current tests "are a joke."

Your friends are out of date. This doesn't use a PCR approach. https://www.alere.com/en/home/produc...ls/id-now.html Basically they have highly selective RNA primers, flagged with beacons, and a highly selective replicase that operates at a single temperature. A test like this is only as good as its primers, but given what we know of this particular virus, it can be remarkably accurate indeed.

What it won't do is give you any idea of mutation or strain identification, in all likelihood. An unlucky mutation might even escape detection entirely, but this is improbable.

[bootstrap]

as_rocketman, didn't John Hopkins just release info that covid-19 is a DNA protein?

[as_rocketman]

Don't know what you're referring to -- so far as I know all coronaviruses are RNA-based. The genome for our current pestilence is also public, so there are no surprises expected in that regard...

The process of this test also works on DNA. Just need different primers and enzymes.

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Hmm, how accurate can it be with several types of coronavirus and DNA amplification that would also amplify the % of virus.

Friends in the medical field are claiming accurate tests would take significant time to perform and the current tests "are a joke."

So your friends are saying the FDA are idiots?

[bootstrap]

So your friends are saying the FDA are idiots?

You tell me wise one. Conflicting info from 2 different credible sources.

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as_rocketman, didn't John Hopkins just release info that covid-19 is a DNA protein?

Nope, coronavirus is based on single stranded positive RNA.

You tell me wise one. Conflicting info from 2 different credible sources.

If you have evidence to the contrary post it. Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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I'm banking on AYTU. We'll see.

[DoNotReply]

I'm banking on AYTU. We'll see.

I am as well. Been holding for a couple weeks now. They just updated their website so hopefully good news soon. I would like to get my hands on their test since it tells you if you were already exposed to the virus through antibodies. I had what I thought was the flu a month ago. Now I'm curious.

[RaiderNation]

I'm banking on AYTU. We'll see.

same here i got some shares at $1.70

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So your friendsEVERYONE are saying the FDA are idiots?

FIFY.

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The Admiral in charge of the PHS made the point yesterday that there are 18k of these machines already in the system.

[as_rocketman]

Correct. It's just a different reagent load for the ID Now system, in use for a couple of years.