COVID 19: ID NOW molecular test in 15 minutes

A new test for COVID 19 has been released by medical device company Abbott.

The new device can show positive results in a minimum of time and approved for emergency use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration ( ή απλά FDA) χθες το βράδυ. Η δοκιμή χρησιμοποιεί την μικρή, φορητή πλατφόρμα and does not need to send the sample to a central laboratory to perform the analysis. Instead, it can be done directly at a clinic, which could reduce the waiting time needed today.

Doctors can simply take a sample from the patient's nose or throat and insert it directly into the machine to get a result within 15 minutes (the test can take up to 13 minutes if the sample is negative for the virus) .

“With the quick test offered by ID NOW, the healthcare providers can perform molecular testing outside the four walls of a hospital, directly at outbreaks,” said Robert B. Ford, president and CEO of Abbott, in a press release.

This is the second test device for COVID-19 approved by the FDA. The first, made by the biotechnology company Cephid, takes 45 minutes to show the result.

These devices that give quick answers to doctors are extremely useful at this time. Tests (should be done by doctors) can help diagnose patients with mild symptoms or patients with COVID 19 who have no symptoms at all.

The test performed by Abbott's device works differently than all types of tests that have been standard in the US during of the pandemic. Normally, the sample from the patient had to be sent to a laboratory to be processed using a method called PCR, which looks for the coronavirus's genetic material at the molecular level.

To perform a PCR test, the sample must be repeatedly passed through high heat and then turned back. Abbott's device also looks molecularly to detect genetic material of the virus, but works without exposure to high heatα. Γι ‘αυτό η συσκευή είναι τόσο μικρή και δεν χρειάζεται σχεδόν καθόλου ενέργεια.

Abbott says he plans to start building 50.000 devices ID NOW the day and will start next week.

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  1. We will not buy because we have no money.
    We gave everything we had to Papadopoulos and the journalists to inform us on TV and radio.
    For our good of course…

    On the other hand, those of us who write in our old shoes our… instructions for self-inclusion, we are known as @@@@@@ and @@@@@@@@@ as well as @@@@@@@…

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