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Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by ksk on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:09PM (#22867683)
There's never ever going to be enough antibody kits for everyone in the world. Same with the PCR test, its impossible to make so many. The only discussion is going to be about the definition of "wide-spread". Whats yours?
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Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by joe_the_user on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:06PM (#22870115)
Why wouldn't there literally be enough antibody tests for everyone in the world?

The world is full of factories producing a wide variety of things, including biological material. These factories can certainly gear up given time.

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Re:Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 by ksk on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:27PM (#22871042)
Because there isn't enough raw material (e.g. reagents), and even if we did have them and the planets supply chain is messed up.

What makes you certain that it is possible to manufacture billions of tests?

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