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From a technical perspective, it is a simple test. Hard part is chain of custody and sample integrity - controls, etc.
by jfarlow 7y ago
From a technical perspective, it is a simple test. Hard part is chain of custody and sample integrity - controls, etc.
- heyitsguay 7y agoAre there any differences for Covid-19 samples versus any of the other samples such labs would be routinely testing though?
- chromatin 7y agoYes, it is RNA virus so it is an extra step that is not necessary in many other PCR based clinical tests.
- heyitsguay 7y agoSure, I meant for the non-technical aspects that the previous poster mentioned - chain of custody, sample integrity.
- jfarlow 7y agoSo the process used in this testing is so common that research labs and any biochemistry lab in any college or high-school can run the test. But they probably shouldn't because they have no practice nor experience providing a diagnosis to a human - much less the strict statistical controls to interpret their results reliably. A clinical lab that is used to running these kinds of (very common) protocols will see no difference in this protocol from others they commonly run (from a chain of custody, sample integrity, etc. perspective), just with a slight change to their reagents to specifically test for COVID. Their handling should be no different.