the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Chicago Ill, Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as five minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting.
The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of the coronavirus genome, which can quickly be detected when present at high levels. A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes, he said.
Abbott has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “for use by authorized laboratories and patient care settings,” the company said on Friday.
I don’t get it.
How can all of this innovative development be happening from private industry?
How can it be so responsive and happening so quickly?
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I am confused how this is happening without government control.
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– Socialist Bernie Supporter.
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We need to have a two-week continuation of a shut down throughout the hot zone immediately.
Shutdown began a month too late and many are still not complying. We are toast. Thanks for killing me, everybody!
you think we need another two weeks , Then maybe will be OK
We all hope this will pass in a few weeks.
Be safe “
I see a lot of hysterical dolts live in RW.
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Not really surprised.
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