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A Berlin Biotech Company Got a Head Start on Coronavirus Tests

• mtmail 7y ago
  "[Since January company] have produced 40,000 coronavirus diagnostic kits, enough for about 4 million individual tests." "the kits, which sell for about €160 ($180) apiece." Two USD for one test is cheaper than I expected. There's also a photo of a test kit in the article.
  • pergadad 7y ago
    Indeed in other places I've read a cost of $ 200 for a single test. But maybe what's not included here is the labour and machine running time that has to also still be done.
    • joezydeco 7y ago
      Pinnacle BioLabs in the US is taking preorders for their rapid immunoassay kit. $40 a test or $20/ea in packs of 25. https://www.pblabs.com/products/pinnacle-biolabs-covid-19-novel-coronavirus-dual-igg-igm-rapid-test https://www.pblabs.com/products/pinnacle-biolabs-covid-19-no... Investigational use only.
• Waterluvian 7y ago
  Based on what I'm reading online, it really seems like the CDC should be doing random testing to get a much better picture of what infection rates and distribution actually looks like. Given I have no expertise on the matter, I'm eager to hear why this is a good or bad idea.