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Thanks for your reply! Makes sense with regards to the specificity and sensitivity. Are those more scalable supply chains ones that expose you to risk with inte
by vikramkr 7y ago
Thanks for your reply! Makes sense with regards to the specificity and sensitivity. Are those more scalable supply chains ones that expose you to risk with international suppliers? My understanding, at least from what we've been hearing from our governor's press conferences (so take it with a big political grain of salt obviously), is that while we have high throughput machines capable of large numbers of tests, the reagent supply chains all go back to china leaving domestic companires reliant on international trade negotiations to be able to get the inputs they need to scale. Is that a valid type of concern and are there concerns that even if it's technologically easily scalable, the political and operational logistics of relying on third parties with different incentives could negate that advantage? I don't knwo how valid a concern that is, but that's the narrative we keep hearing here.
- predxionbio 7y agoI think we're up against many of the same challenges everyone else (Roche, Abbott, et al.) is up against. At the end of the day if we could all wave a magic wand and fix supply chains we would. Technically, we (the collective diagnostics hive-mind) know how to detect viruses. We haven't yet figured out how to deploy these technologies on scales orders of magnitude above our baseline implementations.