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"[Since January company] have produced 40,000 coronavirus diagnostic kits, enough for about 4 million individual tests." "the kits, which sell for about €160 (
by 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 agoIndeed 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 agoPinnacle 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.