Roche is now making and shipping 400,000 test kits per week in the US, while Abbott is making a million of their test kits each week.
Today, we got even more good news, with Cepheid getting FDA approval for their new test, which will detect the virus in 45 minutes and can be used in over 5000 Cepheid machines already in US hospitals.
In two weeks, we should be able to test 150,000 - 200,000 Americans daily, and that means that we don't all need to stay home anymore.
It's not easy for him to get tested - and if he could get tested, he wouldn't get his results for days.
Now, everyone in his family and workplace immediately gets tested, as does T-Boy - and the virus does not spread beyond them.
The ability to test everyone who needs to be tested is how South Korea and Singapore have been able to control their outbreaks without significant societal restrictions.
If chloroquine works, an at-risk patient would be given it right after testing positive, and hopefully, the viral load in their body never gets high enough for the patient to develop severe shortness of breath, and he stays out of the ICU. A drug like chloroquine doesn't have to be extremely effective in order to have a huge benefit on our ICU density.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/coronavirus-reason-to-hope/
Today, we got even more good news, with Cepheid getting FDA approval for their new test, which will detect the virus in 45 minutes and can be used in over 5000 Cepheid machines already in US hospitals.
In two weeks, we should be able to test 150,000 - 200,000 Americans daily, and that means that we don't all need to stay home anymore.
It's not easy for him to get tested - and if he could get tested, he wouldn't get his results for days.
Now, everyone in his family and workplace immediately gets tested, as does T-Boy - and the virus does not spread beyond them.
The ability to test everyone who needs to be tested is how South Korea and Singapore have been able to control their outbreaks without significant societal restrictions.
If chloroquine works, an at-risk patient would be given it right after testing positive, and hopefully, the viral load in their body never gets high enough for the patient to develop severe shortness of breath, and he stays out of the ICU. A drug like chloroquine doesn't have to be extremely effective in order to have a huge benefit on our ICU density.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/coronavirus-reason-to-hope/
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