Hey Pluto, look! An antibody test! Ok, if DECN

Hey Pluto, look! An antibody test!

Ok, if DECN is giving us an in-depth review of the tests by EOW, I’ll wait. I want to see something along these lines, KB (not expecting the Washington Post, obviously):

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A 10-minute coronavirus test for $1? In the race to invent a faster coronavirus test, the West African laboratory that made one of the world’s first yellow fever vaccines has teamed up with the British creator of pee-on-a-stick pregnancy technology.

More than 200 companies are working to develop similarly speedy tests

The Senegalese team, which helped the WHO through the region’s Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016, was one of the first two labs on the continent to be able to identify the coronavirus, fielding samples from other countries. (Forty-three of Africa’s 54 nations now have diagnostic tools.)

Enter the pregnancy-test model. It’s already used in malaria and HIV kits worldwide: Patients drop blood or saliva onto the devices and wait for a bold line to appear.

Between manufacturing facilities in Dakar and the United Kingdom,

********the team expects to produce 8 million tests annually,*********

said Joe Fitchett, Mologic’s medical director, and

*********sell them for $1 each********

to governments and global disease-fighting bodies.

“The idea,” he said, “is we make it available as widely as possible.”

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