A travel health passport safe and efficacious is needed in the UK and the experts still debating all but one Innova......
.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/covid-test-for-mass-uk-screening-could-miss-up-to-half-of-cases-say-scientists/ar-BB1aYfPR?MSCC=1605084351
Of 40 tests which had been evaluated, only one – Innova – had been assessed in detail. “Yes it will be nice to have a single rapid test that can quickly detect people with high virus loads and get them isolated rapidly,” said Johnston. “This single test will not be good enough to say you are almost certainly negative, as its sensitivity is not good enough, especially in the hands of the general public.”
Peter Santeusanio, VP of product management at Innova Medical Group in California, told the Guardian that the ambition is for the tests to be used with saliva samples at home. People would use their smartphone camera to read the device and find out their result from an app. QDXHealthID???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
“We, as far as I know today, are the only antigen test that is being used in the UK government to the best of my knowledge that is completely validated for saliva testing,” said.
“Saliva testing is critical because saliva testing enables home testing. Eventually.”
He believes lateral flow tests can be used to help people get out of isolation if they are negative. Two tests, two days apart, would be enough to tell whether they are infected, he suggested. “Different people will have different protocols. But, in general, our position on this test is [if] you take the first test and the first test is negative, you would wait for two days, take the second test. And if you’re still negative, you know, you are probably OK, but if you want belt and suspenders, wait two more days.”
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.https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/covid-test-for-mass-uk-screening-could-miss-up-to-half-of-cases-say-scientists/ar-BB1aYfPR?MSCC=1605084351
Of 40 tests which had been evaluated, only one – Innova – had been assessed in detail. “Yes it will be nice to have a single rapid test that can quickly detect people with high virus loads and get them isolated rapidly,” said Johnston. “This single test will not be good enough to say you are almost certainly negative, as its sensitivity is not good enough, especially in the hands of the general public.”
Peter Santeusanio, VP of product management at Innova Medical Group in California, told the Guardian that the ambition is for the tests to be used with saliva samples at home. People would use their smartphone camera to read the device and find out their result from an app. QDXHealthID???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
“We, as far as I know today, are the only antigen test that is being used in the UK government to the best of my knowledge that is completely validated for saliva testing,” said.
“Saliva testing is critical because saliva testing enables home testing. Eventually.”
He believes lateral flow tests can be used to help people get out of isolation if they are negative. Two tests, two days apart, would be enough to tell whether they are infected, he suggested. “Different people will have different protocols. But, in general, our position on this test is [if] you take the first test and the first test is negative, you would wait for two days, take the second test. And if you’re still negative, you know, you are probably OK, but if you want belt and suspenders, wait two more days.”
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