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Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19 Test for Use Almost Anywhere
- hprotagonist 7y agogreat. give me precision, recall, and accuracy please.
- enraged_camel 7y agoYep, I'm wondering the same thing. With the sheer number of pharmaceutical companies jumping on this opportunity and desperately trying to be the first to market with a test, treatment or a vaccine, we the public absolutely need to know the efficacy of whatever is proposed. Especially in light of the fact that the FDA is currently under enormous deregulatory pressure.
- tropo 7y agoThe equipment is excellent for the other diseases it can test for. I think the numbers I saw earlier today were 95% sure for negative and well over 99% sure for positive, but I can't find that source back anymore. Numbers for this specific virus would be poorly understood, but ought to be similar to the numbers for other viruses.
- gz5 7y agonon-paywall version: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fda-gives-the-green-light-to-portable-covid-19-testing-kit/2263068/ https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fda-gives-the-green-li... doesn't list absolute accuracy, but indicates the genome RNA can be identified in as short as 5 minutes, and 13 minutes can be "definitive". it is built on an existing platform: "The technology builds on Illinois-based Abbott’s ID Now platform, the most common point-of-care test currently available in the U.S., with more than 18,000 units spread across the country. It is widely used to detect influenza, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus, a common bug that causes cold-like symptoms."
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago13 minutes for a "definitive" negative. So it's fast to detect high viral loads, but takes longer for smaller quantities.
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708535
- mmhsieh 7y agoDo we have any old Theranos machines we can repurpose?