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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 30 2020, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-testing dept.

'A game changer': FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' portable, 5-minute coronavirus test the size of a toaster:

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.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @10:58AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @10:58AM (#977166)

    There are plenty of tests, they found the number of cases increases as a near constant proportion of number of tests:

    https://i.ibb.co/pXYVx71/covidstates.png [i.ibb.co]
    https://i.ibb.co/4YJqVLZ/delaware.png [i.ibb.co]
    https://i.ibb.co/7vTm8cC/newyork.png [i.ibb.co]

    Ie, this virus is already everywhere and it wasn't even noticed until the testing began.

    Mortality rates in Europe for 65+ are apparently 2 sd below expected: http://euromomo.eu/ [euromomo.eu]

    Hospitalizations in the US are down 40%: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/senAllregt12.html [cdc.gov]

    Rumors are starting that doctors and nurses are being sent home around the country due to lack of patients.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @02:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @02:41PM (#977214)

    Rumors are starting that doctors and nurses are being sent home around the country due to lack of patients.

    Rumors are starting? Do you have a single reference or citation where this is actually happening?

    Didn't think so.

    Are you the same slimy propagandist who so smugly claimed a few weeks ago that smokers are less likely to be infected? That sure supported your (or someone's) agenda, but it turned out to be just as much a lie as all the other Trump-adoring propaganda.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @06:10PM (#977297)

    Rumors are starting that doctors and nurses are being sent home around the country due to lack of patients.

    I don't know about that, but our local hospital still doesn't seem very busy yet. Except their new office building site, where construction activity seems to have resumed again.

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 31 2020, @09:51PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday March 31 2020, @09:51PM (#977804) Journal

    No, not lack of patients. Fear of COVID. There are plenty of people who should be hospitalized in this time. Plenty of people who need various surgeries. But many (if not most) hospitals, out of either fear or prudence depending on how you view the situation, have restricted admissions and surgeries to only those which are truly and genuinely emergent. That means there may well be people sent home from the ER who should be admitted before this started. It means people having to live in pain because the specialist physician decided to lock their offices. It means people who are being told, "you have a cough? Stay away from this office and run to the E.R. to get tested!" and people who are not going to pay a $3,000 E.R. bill to try and get some relief for their bronchitis.

    Was that right, or wrong, to do so? Well... is the curve flattening? Are people alive who would otherwise be dead?

    But that doesn't mean there won't be a load of patients and absolutely jammed operating rooms and admissions once that curve starts to flatten. Or peopole who needed health.

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