South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus
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#2This is striking:
"A nation of 51 million, South Korea has tested about 250,000 people since its outbreak began on Jan. 20, with a daily capacity of 15,000. It has conducted 3,600 tests per million people compared to five per million in the U.S."
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#3Will Korea sell us tests?
Will anyone? Has this been discussed anywhere?
Re: South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus
#4This is striking: "A nation of 51 million, South Korea has tested about 250,000 people since its outbreak began on Jan. 20, with a daily capacity of 15,000. It has conducted 3,600 tests per million people compared to five per million in the U.S."
It was announced that Idaho could test 800 to 1000 people. Not a day, total. The state has a population of 1.8 million people. It is the only state with no confirmed cases besides West Virginia, as of this morning.
> It takes anywhere from hours to days to get test results. A doctor with a patient in Boise could have results in a matter of hours, because of proximity to the state laboratory. But samples that go to private labs in Utah and Washington take longer, due to shipping time and the hours it takes to run the tests.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/health-fitness/article...
Re: South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus
#5The situation in Stockholm, Sweden right now is:
“You who have symptoms similar to coronavirus will not be tested in the future. This applies regardless of whether you have been in the areas that were previously exposed to infection or had close contact with someone you know is ill in covid-19.”
There are no test kits. Hospitals have run out of face masks. And it’s only just getting started here.
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#6The questions to ask for any test:
- What is the false positive rate?
- What is the false negative rate?
- Considering the above, what is the efficacy of mass testing?
(Not saying it is or isn't effective, hard numbers are necessary)
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#7This is striking: "A nation of 51 million, South Korea has tested about 250,000 people since its outbreak began on Jan. 20, with a daily capacity of 15,000. It has conducted 3,600 tests per million people compared to five per million in the U.S."
It was announced that Idaho could test 800 to 1000 people. Not a day, total. The state has a population of 1.8 million people. It is the only state with no confirmed cases besides West Virginia, as of this morning. > It takes anywhere from hours to days to get test results. A doctor with a patient in Boise could have results in a matter of hours, because of proximity to the state laboratory. But samples that go to pr…
Meanwhile in Oklahoma:
> The coronavirus tests run on the Utah Jazz’s players and team employees came from a good portion of the state of Oklahoma’s supply.
> The 50-plus tests that were run on the Jazz’s traveling party after Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 were from the state and not a private lab. And the number of tests run on Jazz players represents over half of the state’s daily peak capacity testing levels.
> “We have the capacity to run about 100 tests a day and we have a number of test kits,” Oklahoma commissioner of health Gary Cox said at a Thursday news conference. “We're ordering additional reagents at the time. So, we have the current capacity I think for about 300 tests.” Oklahoma has had three positive cases of the virus so far with four still pending. Thirty-six tests have returned negative.
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#8Will Korea sell us tests? Will anyone? Has this been discussed anywhere?
The administration turned away from the German designed/WHO standard tests everyone else is using, so I don’t think any international ones are FDA approved.
Today’s presser sure gave me the impression that the delay in testing was so they could roll out this nebulous private-public partnership drive through testing and I guess boost CVS’ stock price or something.
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#9I wonder if Walmart completely thought out what is going to happen when they turn their parking lots into drive-up testing, implying that every sick person with a fever is going to be in a Walmart parking lot soon.
Re: South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus
#10The situation in Stockholm, Sweden right now is: “You who have symptoms similar to coronavirus will not be tested in the future. This applies regardless of whether you have been in the areas that were previously exposed to infection or had close contact with someone you know is ill in covid-19.” There are no test kits. Hospitals have run out of face masks. And it’s only just getting started here.
One could built UV-Lightmasks.
A transparent hose, add UV-LEDS to sterilize the flowing air. Dry the air at the start with silica gel. All that is needed then is a battery.
The silica gel can be heated every once in a while to loose any moisture bound it and sterilize virus particles attached to it.