The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued Emergency Use Authorization to Illinois-based medical device maker Abbott Labs on Friday for a coronavirus test that delivers positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes, the company said.
The company expects the tests to be available next week and expects to ramp up manufacturing to deliver 50,000 tests per day.
"I am pleased that the FDA authorized Abbott's point-of-care test yesterday. This is big news and will help get more of these tests out in the field rapidly," FDA Commissioner Steve Hahn said in a statement. "We know how important it is to get point-of-care tests out in the field quickly. These tests that can give results quickly can be a game changer in diagnosing COVID-19."
Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, echoed Hahn's comments on Twitter, calling the development a "game changer." Gottlieb also said it's "very likely" that we'll see additional approvals of point-of-care diagnostics behind this one, extending testing to doctor offices across the U.S.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @04:09AM (4 children)
It would be more useful if you had data from the future. Data from the past is... past.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by krishnoid on Monday March 30 2020, @04:39AM
Here you go:
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @04:45AM (2 children)
I have data from the future:
Sometime in the future: "They have done excellent job, excellent, job, i have done excellent job, just marvellu.. lo... marv... the bets job ever, we have the best people in the world in amerrrrr here, they are the most bestest. I have led them in this war against the baddest enemy ever seen by this planet, the bad-dest. And we did all this in record time, nobody did it faster and the least amount of dead people in the world. And the markets are higher than ever, you know they ran out of numbers to show how goodest the market is now. Democrats did nothing, absoluttlly nothing, they are all morons, just morons. Just today some lady said, i had a convers.tststs talk with her, on the street, this marvelous street, the best, called Trump street and she said democrats are horrible people, just horrible, it's like, they all know i've done tremendous job, the best"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @01:48PM
That is silly, he never goes into that much detail, it is always "people keep saying..." or "people keep asking me...", not a "a woman on that street..." that is way to refutable.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday March 30 2020, @07:02PM
"What was that, Miss uh ... presidential aide?"
"Um, sir, that lady in the street telling you that you were the best -- the actual quote was, 'Yes, you have decided to 'Be Best'.' And that was your wife -- I mean the first lady, your current wife -- just for future reference."