Covid home test kits

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The United States Department of Defense has awarded a contract worth $US230 million ($302 million) to Brisbane-based biotech firm Ellume to ramp up production of its COVID-19 home test kits.

The at-home tests are designed to detect fragments of the virus from a nasal swab. It can be performed in 15 minutes with results reported via a smartphone app. The test will be purchased without a prescription in the US, but not available in Australia.

"It has been a lot of work from many hundreds of people over a decade, and a terrific team effort to get to this point…it is very rewarding," Ellume founder and CEO Dr Sean Parsons told Today.

The company had been working on developing a test for the flu when they changed tact to deal with the coronavirus, he said……

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02...ract-from-us-for-at-home-covid-tests/13111502

 

[chic]

I can imagine how we'll screw this up and all the false positives we'll get.

 

[tbeltrans]

Instead of finding COVID, I bet there will be a lot of false pregnancies!

Tony

 

[Pappy]

Wellcare, through United Health care just send us two kits to use if necessary. I hope we never have to use them.