Imagine if instead of making COVID isolation guidelines as weak as the flu...
We approved combo rapid tests like this and made them free and available for everyone...
So that people could tell how long they need to isolate based on science and not feelings, whatever the pathogen.
We approved combo rapid tests like this and made them free and available for everyone...
So that people could tell how long they need to isolate based on science and not feelings, whatever the pathogen.
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1. How much per test?
2. Who is doing the testing?
2a. If it's the individual, what are the controls to make sure people are using this properly?
I can imagine dozens of reasons with you can't manufacture reliably are scale such kit with optimal reliability/sensibility.
Is it real?
Not quite that wide ranging and not FDA approved for the US, but they are made/sold.
Really need these, and in an even easier to use form.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7448643/
Sure enough omnicron evolved to dodge the nasal nucleocapsid protein based antigen tests. 😥
Meanwhile a real killer like TB is making a nice little comeback and nobody cares.
Imagine a world where employers are capable of recognizing that sick days are a practical necessity, not a fringe benefit that only high-status workers get.
When they asked how many sick days they got, the company rep stared at them blankly for a moment and then said, “all of them”
2. What does he even mean by “free”? WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES?
And if MP is m-pox there are other concerns about specificity and self-diagnosis. Though IIRC it does have high viral shedding in saliva so it could be a good candidate for this kind of test if that stuff got worked out.
I've got mpox on the brain 😅
Single Covid tests are useful for Covid. But I’ve known people who were infected with both Covid and flu at the same time. Home tests here can’t detect both.
Logic. Nice
Is there a version of this that can be recycled safely?
Making test makes money.
The chamber of commerce has all the say and the voters can sit and spin