Was UK Gov't using Bill Gates SCAN results from University of Washington?
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Covid-19: “Unacceptable” that antibody test claims cannot be scrutinised, say experts
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2000
The UK government has said that the tests from pharmaceutical companies Roche (Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody test) and Abbott (SARS-CoV-2 IgG test) could be “rapidly rolled out in the days and weeks to come.” While the results of the PHE’s evaluation remain unpublished, Abbott highlighted tests carried out by the University of Washington and published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
A spokesperson for Abbott said, “Abbott’s covid-19 laboratory based antibody test has been successfully evaluated by public health bodies for England, Scotland, and Wales as highly specific and they have communicated evaluated specificity results between 99.73% and 100%.”
But Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, told The BMJ, “It’s not acceptable for data not to be fully reported and scrutinised for these tests.”
He said it is “very difficult to make any sense of the claims being made by the companies when the study report is not available. Part of practising good science is ensuring study results are reported and communicated appropriately, and can be shown to be supported by data. PHE needs to ensure this process is properly managed.”
FDA stopped SCAN testing:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/498104-fda-halts-bill-gates-coronavirus-testing-program
The tests are categorized as surveillance tests, which can be used by researchers but cannot be given to patients or doctors for diagnostic purposes. Since SCAN was returning results to patients, the FDA said that the program needed to be subjected to guidelines for diagnostic testing