Dunno about over there, but here the FDA decided to let the pharma firms just go for it without regulation, to speed things up. We currently have 17 different tests that vary wildly in their accuracy, not to mention price (Novel CV tests are free by law, antibody test are not). They just haven’t been reliable enough.
The General Covid19 Thread
i’m in canada and i’ve read a bunch about possible vaccines being produced at the u of a and usask, but i’ve heard nothing about antibody testing. i’m assuming it’s a technical challenge, but we need to confirm that it’s not mutating and that antibody testing will allow for life to move forward. closing the world’s economy indefinitely is just not a sound plan.
The missus is following a Dr on insta (she’s into her fitness and he is big on that scene) and he is offering two tests: £100 for the C19 test, or £200 for the antibody test.
Something is telling me he is profiteering?
that’s an interesting chart, not surprising in the least though.
India and Turkey are tracking just outside of that bubble. Makes you wonder?
At the risk of BF being a cunt again; More ‘FAO Parents - important’ style news:
I find it quite heartening the lots of local councils are saying they are going to defy the governments’ orders to reopen schools on June 1st while things are unsafe.
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FabiParas Less than 4k deaths here and everyone has kept to the rules from day 1. Supermarkets always fully stocked, no hoarding of toilet roll etc. Everyone wearing masks. Nobody down at the seaside walking or abusing the rules during strict lockdown times. Feels very organised and people have been taking it seriously from the get-go. The lockdown measures they’ve brought in (full lockdown every weekend) have gone off without a hitch barring the first time they announced it with 2 hours notice, but now it works smoothly and seems to have slowed the infection rates considerably. Turkey came to the party late and it seemed to give them the benefit of taking the best measures from other countries and implementing them fast. The large spike in cases came from 20k travellers to the Umre in Saudi being let back in without being tested. This was right about the time anybody returning from Europe were being put into 2 weeks quarantine. But of course, Erdoğan’s Muslim disciples get special treatment.
Schools opened here today.
Ffs let him get his footing before we start the jibes again.
I’m looking forward to the second assault of my nasopharyngeal tomorrow morning. Nothing like getting a 4 inch swab rammed in your nose until it hits the back of your skull at 8 in the morning. If I have to get a third,, might just ask they pull the 6 footer out and go straight up my ass.
Negative first go. Given it feels like a hippopotamus has taken refuge on my chest for the past few we’ll see how this goes.
jonattonyeah God’s speed JTY
Avoid going hungover mate, was less than optimal!
This:
The R rate back up and we’ve not even hit the results of the conga line spastics due in a few weeks. ffs.
Wally Christ, everyone is obsessed with R0 when no one has a hope in hell of accurately estimating it… yet journos are reporting small changes in it all the time.. the German number moves quickly and spuriously between 0.65 and 1.1 and back again…. load of bollocks frankly.. although it wouldn’t surprise me if the fuckwits that run the country took it seriously
