Coronavirus (OLD)

[heero_yuy]

Quote from The Sun:

A NEW “game-changing” coronavirus swab test could tell if you have the bug within 15 minutes.

Developed by British scientists, the £1.50 tests works on saliva or blood and is able to detect particles of the coronavirus.

Project leader Stephen Bustin, Professor of molecular medicine at Anglia Ruskin University, is a leading expert in quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).

He said the throat and nose swab could give a "robust and reliable" response on whether a patient has the virus.

Prof Bustin said: "The test works on nucleic acid, so any biological sample will do. SARS is usually detected in nose or throat swabs.

"So that is what we have used for its validation. But it also works with saliva samples and would work with blood - although blood is not used for Covid testing."

A simple saliva test with results in 20 minutes, cheap and (so far) is 100% reliable.

Definitely a game changer.

[Taf]

Lockdown for our city from Sunday evening.

And they sneaked out a new rule that has not yet appeared on websites "All places that sell alcohol have to cease at 10pm". That includes shops and supermarkets.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Taf

Lockdown for our city from Sunday evening.

And they sneaked out a new rule that has not yet appeared on websites "All places that sell alcohol have to cease at 10pm". That includes shops and supermarkets.

One third of the country now under lockdown with no doubt more to follow.

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by denphone

One third of the country now under lockdown with no doubt more to follow.

Madness imo.

[1andrew1]

Bosch has just launched a reliable test that takes 39 minutes.

The world’s fastest PCR test for SARS-CoV-2
Rapid test is particularly suited to decentralized use in mobile test centers.
Bosch CEO Dr. Volkmar Denner: “We can put people’s minds at ease even more quickly.”
Bosch test has a sensitivity of 98 percent and a specificity of 100 percent.
Simultaneous testing of five people with one test cartridge will also be possible as of early October.
Bosch is working to further reduce time to result.

https://www.bosch-presse.de/presspor...es-219392.html

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Bosch has just launched a reliable test that takes 39 minutes.


https://www.bosch-presse.de/presspor...es-219392.html

That could be a real game-changer.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

That could be a real game-changer.

It sounds really good. It uses the most accurate method of testing for the presence of coronavirus, polymerase chain reaction technology.
Its test has a sensitivity of 98% (ie the ability to avoid false negatives) and a specificity of 100%( ie the ability to avoid false positives).

[papa smurf]

ooh another game changer.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

ooh another game changer.

I don't often àgree with papa... But...

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

It's generally for any device that's 5 years old or newer as it needed active development from Apple and Google to add in the tracking mechanism.

---------- Post added at 14:08 ---------- Previous post was at 13:48 ----------

Realised I should have said devices with an OS 5 years old or newer!

For Android it's on Android 6 and above with the Play Store installed
For iOS it's iOS 13.5 or newer - so that's on the iPhone 6S or later

I'm on Android 7 (Kernel) and it says it's not compatible with my device

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Madness imo.

Agree, it's all madness now, fed up with all the crap . .

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

ooh another game changer.

Yeah, bullshi.....I mean moonshot.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I'm on Android 7 (Kernel) and it says it's not compatible with my device

No idea on that. The requirements come straight from Google

https://support.google.com/android/a...88358?hl=en-GB

[1andrew1]

Study suggests few Americans have Covid-19 antibodies
Survey indicates vast majority may not have an immune response despite high infection numbers
Fewer than 10 per cent of Americans have antibodies that could protect them from developing Covid-19, according to the first nationally representative survey that shows the vast majority still have not developed an immune response to the virus.

The serological survey, published in the medical journal The Lancet on Friday, also found that black and Hispanic communities had two to four times higher rates of antibodies to Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, after they were hit harder by outbreaks earlier this year.

Julie Parsonnet, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and author of the study, said vulnerable populations would need to be protected until an effective vaccine is approved...

The study, conducted in July, comes as US public health leaders are pushing back against an argument from some allies of President Donald Trump that certain communities could be near herd immunity, the point at which a virus has difficulty spreading because so many people are immune.

https://www.ft.com/content/99c23624-...8-eef341464588

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Madness imo.

Paranoia wins again.

Im constantly having to follow ridiculous & inconsistant rules for a virus no one I know has ever seen evidence of.

Between myself, and my family (several of who work in schools, so know a lot of people) and other contacts, we know a fair portion of our town and surrounding area. Plus we have a couple of local FB groups Im a member of.

Do you know how many cases of CV19 we know of ?
Zero, not a single one.

No one I know, or anyone they know, no one in any of our groups.

I had to visit the dentist the other week, and answer all the contact questions about do you have, know of ... blah.
I asked them how many cases they know of .... yep, you guessed it, Zero.

So if you wonder why large parts of the public are starting to get pissed off, you know why.
Im constantly following stupid rules to fight something that may as well be on another planet.