>>8394203 lb
>>8394214 lb
>>8394217 lb
How can these officials be so confident about such large estimates?
What are these test kits actually testing for? Antibodies?
What % of test kits give false positives? Any quality control studies done on them?
What % of people who test positive for Wuhan have also received the normal flu vaccine?
>What are these test kits actually testing for? Antibodies?
>Any quality control studies done on them?
Partial answers below.
>>8394186 lb
>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html
Archived version
https://archive.is/hnXrO
"New tests typically require validation — running the test on known positive samples from a patient or a copy of the virus genome. The F.D.A.’s process called for five. Obtaining such samples has been hard because most hospital labs have not seen coronavirus cases yet, said Dr. Karen Kaul, chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois."
"The C.D.C. had designed its own test as it typically does during an outbreak. Several other countries also developed their own tests.
But when the C.D.C. shipped test kits to public labs across the country, some local health officials began reporting that the test was producing invalid results."
How could they know they were producing invalid results?
>New DJT rt
Call to digg?
>TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, the Berlin biotech company he started three decades ago. “We’re nearing our limit.”
>In the past two months, Landt and his staff at the company’s production facility—a former industrial building just south of the disused Tempelhof airport——have produced 40,000 coronavirus diagnostic kits, enough for about 4 million individual tests. TIB has reoriented its business toward coronavirus, running its machines through the night and on weekends to make the kits, which sell for about €160 ($180) apiece. As orders have poured in from the World Health Organization, national health authorities, and laboratories in some 60 countries, TIB’s revenue tripled…
meant for >>8394860
https://www.gene-quantification.de/tib-molbiol/
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