AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
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This is the antigen test from Abbott that was in the news a month ago that was announced for distribution today at the White House.
Hopefully they actually do a good job of rolling it out. In theory it should enable more activities - if used correctly. Obviously there are tons of other things that need to be done to maximize effectiveness. None of which will be done.
97.1% sensitivity and 98.5% specificity. I can't find the detailed data. That's going to mean a lot of false positives, so positive results will need to be followed up by RT-PCR if the symptoms (or lack of them) are not consistent with COVID.
I'll believe the impact when I hear about tests being widely available. I wonder how this additional testing will be accounted for in the daily testing numbers.
Way better to have 150 million of these than not have them, though! 100 million are going towards school reopening, 50 million as follows: 18 million for nursing homes; 15 million for assisted living facilities; 10 million for home, health, and hospice care agencies; and nearly 1 million for HBCUs. (7 million unaccounted for)
I disagree. There have been many opportunities to make large differences in the numbers, in spite of people being resistant to it. In fact, as head of a Republican administration, Trump was optimally positioned to gather the country in a united effort to eliminate the virus. Would have been much more difficult for a Democrat. But instead, it was politicized. But, that's the last I'll say on that more political discussion. Mostly we just need to just crush this thing like a bug.
This is the antigen test from Abbott that was in the news a month ago that was announced for distribution today at the White House.
Hopefully they actually do a good job of rolling it out. In theory it should enable more activities - if used correctly. Obviously there are tons of other things that need to be done to maximize effectiveness. None of which will be done.
97.1% sensitivity and 98.5% specificity. I can't find the detailed data. That's going to mean a lot of false positives, so positive results will need to be followed up by RT-PCR if the symptoms (or lack of them) are not consistent with COVID.
I'll believe the impact when I hear about tests being widely available. I wonder how this additional testing will be accounted for in the daily testing numbers.
Way better to have 150 million of these than not have them, though! 100 million are going towards school reopening, 50 million as follows: 18 million for nursing homes; 15 million for assisted living facilities; 10 million for home, health, and hospice care agencies; and nearly 1 million for HBCUs. (7 million unaccounted for)
I disagree. There have been many opportunities to make large differences in the numbers, in spite of people being resistant to it. In fact, as head of a Republican administration, Trump was optimally positioned to gather the country in a united effort to eliminate the virus. Would have been much more difficult for a Democrat. But instead, it was politicized. But, that's the last I'll say on that more political discussion. Mostly we just need to just crush this thing like a bug.
