Abbott Labs - Test Approval

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7:29p, 3/27/20
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This is good news . . .probably belongs in the good news only thread but I posted it anyway.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/abbott-receives-approval-for-test-that-can-detect-coronavirus-in-as-little-as-5-minutes.html

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Abbott receives approval for test that can detect coronavirus in 5 minutes

Abbott on Friday announced it received approval for a test that is capable of delivering positive results of the coronavirus in as little as five minutes, and it will begin making those tests available to health care providers next week.

The Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for the point-of-care test on Friday, the company said in a statement. The test can detect negative results in 13 minutes. The company said it plans to ramp up manufacturing so it can deliver 50,000 tests per day.
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All good. But like the Walmart, Target etc testing sites. Still waiting. Rollout of this stuff is terribly too slow.
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7:55p, 3/27/20
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But like the Walmart, Target etc testing sites. Still waiting. Rollout of this stuff is terribly too slow.
The Wal-Mart and Target stuff was obvious political optics. Abbott may be but at least they have decades of high volume, quality-controlled manufacture of medical products. They say 50K and that probably mean 50K.
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8:26p, 3/27/20
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I wish they could share the process for making this test with others and ramp it up to 500,000 a day.
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8:51p, 3/27/20
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I heard ability to test 5m in April.
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In reply to aginlakeway • 8:20a, 3/28/20
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You know, once 50% of the population will have already had it either mildly or asymptomatically.

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In reply to Marcus Aurelius • 8:24a, 3/28/20
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Marcus Aurelius said:
All good. But like the Walmart, Target etc testing sites. Still waiting. Rollout of this stuff is terribly too slow.
To have a game-changing impact, production must be increased orders of magnitude .... millions/day.and readily available soon.
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