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Re:Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19 by lmedinas on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:33AM (#22691876)
"(...)the rapid test can detect a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection in patients in under two and a half hours" (...)With the tests currently in use, patients must usually wait one to two days for a result."

Well i see here a big improvement...

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Re:Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19 by PierceJoy on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:24AM (#22692142)
> With the tests currently in use, patients must usually wait one to two days for a result.

Is that because it takes 2 days for the test to complete, or because there a 2 day delay from backlog + administrative time?

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Re:Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19 by PunchTornado on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:42PM (#22695978)
usually shipping the samples to a lab. this test can be done on the spot in the hospital by a doctor.
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Re:Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19 by blompa on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:21AM (#22692126)
The thing is though, the current PCR-based tests can be parallelised, with hundreds being run at the same time, taking just a couple of hours.

The biggest waiting time comes from logistics with transportation to the labs, which is where the Bosch test is advantageous.

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