At-Home Covid-19 Testing Arrives, With Accuracy and Access Questions

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Companies are starting to roll out tests that can diagnose coronavirus infections at home, offering people who are seeking to return to work a more accessible option to check their health, but experts worry about test accuracy

A handful of labs have started getting the green light from regulators to sell at-home coronavirus tests, but are dogged by questions about their accuracy and affordability

A growing number of hospitals are investigating antibody testing and blood plasma therapy as a way to combat the new coronavirus in sick patients. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann

 

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CharityLScott $sona SonaNanotech is a rapid antigen point of care lateral flow test covid19 test with results in under 15mins with 96% sensitivity and specificity...best in class coming to a market and will have contact tracking and tracing.

CharityLScott Probably as accurate as the ones that are giving the false positives?

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CharityLScott Distribute it to every household.

CharityLScott So now they say there are 3 different ways to collect samples? The crumbs continue to fall. DNA DNA is what they want and need. Tracking you and creation of other biomedical weapons. 🤫🤫

CharityLScott Is there an at-home test to see if you've already had COVID-19?🤔

CharityLScott The federal government should be paying for coronavirus tests period. This especially true because of failure to enforce or even endorse CDC guidelines and failure to fully activate Defense Production Act.

CharityLScott Thanks for this info🤔

CharityLScott Don't need one for fake viruses.

CharityLScott Do they have one for the flu? I have kids so we are more concerned about allergies and the flu

CharityLScott You show a RDT antibody test on the home screen of the video but the video only talks about PCR testing for the virus itself. Very misleading.

CharityLScott I thought they were free?

Thanks so much. Next, test antibody, and reproduced ones to protect us.

PROTESTERS POUND THE STREETS--COULD COVID BE OVER

Ha ha, Jed exactly- so that even more guinea pigs are made available for experimentations!

People need access to easy and quick testing. Companies can meet that demand much quicker than the government can at the moment, them being incredibly occupied at the moment.

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