Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
by protein_lense on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:59AM
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I'm in Seattle. While there may be official "kits" for this, the protocol can be run in any competent lab set up for this type of assay. DNA primers specific for covid-19 would need to be ordered, but this is routine.
ETA: I'm having trouble locating positive control template sequences.
I am happy for S. Korea running 100,000+ tests, and embarrassed that the US has maybe run 1000s at this point. I also think that the virus is widely dispersed in the US and the best we can hope for is to keep the case load at a level manageable by our health care system. I'm pretty worried about that though.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-detecti...
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-p...
ETA: I'm having trouble locating positive control template sequences.
I am happy for S. Korea running 100,000+ tests, and embarrassed that the US has maybe run 1000s at this point. I also think that the virus is widely dispersed in the US and the best we can hope for is to keep the case load at a level manageable by our health care system. I'm pretty worried about that though.