If Saliva works better than blood, and there are n
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Posted On: 07/10/2020 5:54:24 PM
If Saliva works better than blood, and there are no changes required to the test strips, maybe they should stay with Saliva.
Dr. Birx aside who perfectly specified DECN's product in early TV appearances and then disappeared, DECN moving to saliva and forsaking blood alone is probably a mistake.
If saliva works with the existing test strip and meter, and the test strip requires no new engineering, you move to saliva for Covid-19 for three reasons, two of which are important.
1. some people, particularly people from the 3rd world are afraid of the needles that prick fingers. I have seen this in the literature about diabetes testing in Mexico and the Philippines. It is probably not limited to these countries.
2. There have been no large studies because Covid testing usually doesn't use either blood or saliva, but it does appear that Covid shows up in saliva about 8-12 hours earlier... lets say 8 hours earlier... that is a big deal
3. now the less important today reason, I am not sure you could get the same good response from an HIV or Ebola test using saliva... I know both of those viruses are blood borne. So it makes perfect sense to complete both saliva and blood if DECN wants to become a virus detection company
Now just my musings.... does anyone with half a brain believe that Keith Berman, who cut his teeth at Technicon-Revlon and Boehringer-Roche, who worked with Japanese engineers before most Americans ended up working for them, who created a model working with the Koreans actually thinks he is going to spend all of his time raising money and growing DECN into a virus testing powerhouse and go through all of the fits and starts otherwise called growing pains, or is he going to get FDA authorization for GenViro and then sell the company to big pharma and buy back from the big pharma the TBG technology and product and run a diabetes specialty company as a toy?
Dr. Birx aside who perfectly specified DECN's product in early TV appearances and then disappeared, DECN moving to saliva and forsaking blood alone is probably a mistake.
If saliva works with the existing test strip and meter, and the test strip requires no new engineering, you move to saliva for Covid-19 for three reasons, two of which are important.
1. some people, particularly people from the 3rd world are afraid of the needles that prick fingers. I have seen this in the literature about diabetes testing in Mexico and the Philippines. It is probably not limited to these countries.
2. There have been no large studies because Covid testing usually doesn't use either blood or saliva, but it does appear that Covid shows up in saliva about 8-12 hours earlier... lets say 8 hours earlier... that is a big deal
3. now the less important today reason, I am not sure you could get the same good response from an HIV or Ebola test using saliva... I know both of those viruses are blood borne. So it makes perfect sense to complete both saliva and blood if DECN wants to become a virus detection company
Now just my musings.... does anyone with half a brain believe that Keith Berman, who cut his teeth at Technicon-Revlon and Boehringer-Roche, who worked with Japanese engineers before most Americans ended up working for them, who created a model working with the Koreans actually thinks he is going to spend all of his time raising money and growing DECN into a virus testing powerhouse and go through all of the fits and starts otherwise called growing pains, or is he going to get FDA authorization for GenViro and then sell the company to big pharma and buy back from the big pharma the TBG technology and product and run a diabetes specialty company as a toy?
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