FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test

Re:FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Co... by bamboozled on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:38AM (#22711727)

If 7500 people land in Sydney tomorrow (I think that’s the real number about to enter mandatory quarantine) even in the best case scenario using one machine without considering preparation time it will take around 1875 hours to process everyone. Around 18 hours for ten machines running, even then, that’s without prep time.

That’s a pretty long customs line.

To add to that, at a accuracy rate of 99% there will be about 75 people who will go through with the wrong diagnosis unless retests are done, which will add extra time. I really don’t see this working out at that scale.

You’d really need a sub 60 second test for this to scale.

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Re:FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Co... by brokenkebab on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:12AM (#22718327)

Not sure, if you are following the news really. If there will be no possibility to check 7500, then 7500 will not be allowed. It's easy as that. Nobody will scale tests to a number of arrivals, its number of arrivals which will be scaled down. And possibility to test quickly may allow thin stream of visitors, and/or shorter quarantine terms for them.

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