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I’m not sure why the UK is having problems with testing. There are hundreds of small biotechs, probably a dozen or two who could make a decent antibody self test and have it ready for validation in a week. Every lab in the country has PCR machines of all types. Commandeer them, cluster them locally.
There are multiple large central labs in the Uk. All over the country -they serve the clinical research industry and are capable of running hundreds of thousands of tests a day EACH. Fera, cellomatics, PPD, covance, Q2, Hammersmith, start using them. They can do bulk ELISA s and bulk PCR. Don’t have an ELISA yet? What the fuck are you playing at? Two dozen small providers in the uk could have this sorted for you. Not enough reagents? Combine the wells if needed and split out any positives to identify the individual samples that are positive.
The idea that they’d need to do tests in individual university labs is daft. Cluster resources, and use the big labs. Use smaller providers for innovation if needed.
This kind of logistical stumbling bothers me. There’s no need for it. The brains and the kit is there, and this says to me that government needs a few more science bods in it or they would have been on weeks back. It’s obvious stuff.
The problem is twofold.
One, the NHS chose to semi-centralise testing of Corona-chan samples to three large labs which they controlled which have the spare capacity.
You note all those labs, and quite rightly so, but then we come on to two.
Two, all of those labs will still be needed for the regular testing and bulk testing they do. We need more capacity, which is why the Health Secretary announced a huge increase in basically setting up an extra, temporary expansion to cover COVID-19 testing. We'll lose a lot more lives by simply telling a bunch of labs to start Corona-chan testing above all else.
Amazing. Even as the coronavirus crisis continues to affect Germany, hospitals are being closed.
Temporary hospitals are being set up.. while permanent hospitals serving small communities are being closed.![]()
【魚拓】Hospital closures continue in Germany despite COVID-19 pandemic - World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org:443/en/articles/2020/04/02/germ-a02.html - 2020年4月4日 15:53 - ウェブ魚拓megalodon.jp
You would think that the people behind the 'elite' that rules over Germany would have some shame about this. But why should they? They need to spend government money on important things, like building nuclear-armed submarines for their masters, not hospitals serving rural areas. What better time to shut down hospitals than a time that they can bar protests?
>Germany
>Nuclear Armed Submarines
Are you just intentionally this fucking thick?