University of Washington creates its own coronavirus test & will test 1500 people per day

[Mrs. Overall]

starting at the end of this week.

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/uw-medicine-ramps-new-coronavirus-lab-test-mass-distribution/

The University of Washington School of Medicine is moving forward with a new clinical lab test for the COVID-19 coronavirus, and plans to be able to test up to 1,500 samples per day by the end of the week.

Implementation of the test, which will be available only through physicians and healthcare providers, was announced today. The effort follows up on the Food and Drug Administration’s announcement that it would allow labs to develop their own diagnostic tests for the virus under expedited approval.

Also today, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it’s committing an additional $5 million to help public health agencies in the Seattle area enhance their capacity to detect the virus. The response to the coronavirus’ spread was stymied in the Seattle area, where the first U.S. cases were reported, because effective lab tests weren’t available in the first weeks of the epidemic.

Seattle-King County public health officials reported 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, including one additional death. That brings the total for King County to 31 confirmed cases, including nine deaths. An additional death has been reported in neighboring Snohomish County, and California reported its first coronavirus-related death today.

[Leghorn21]

1. OH HELL YEAH

Not a moment too soon!!!!!

GOOD SHOW, Y'ALL

[defacto7]

2. Excellent.

[pat_k]

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Good to hear

Sounds like they had to due to stupid shit pointed out in the following article.

Coronavirus test kit delay pushes hospitals to make their own

There are only 15,000 coronavirus test kits available in the United States, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which has authorized commercial labs to develop more tests. More than a million tests are expected to be produced by the end of the week.

The delay in CDC test kits isn't stopping some states from unveiling their own testing procedures.

"We cannot have a system which is centralized in a few laboratories. Really, the front-line battle of the response to the new coronavirus will be done in the outpatient clinics and the hospitals," said Dr. Albert Ko at the Yale School of Medicine

Private hospitals like NYU Langone in Manhattan are also making plans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-test-kit-delay-pushes-hospitals-to-make-their-own/ar-BB10JKMp?li=BBnb7Kz

And you wait and see. The dumbfucks in the Republican party are going to say that the success of the UW and other institutions means the federal government doesn't have to fund medical research to find a cure.

[Duppers]

5. K & R

Wishing and hoping other state universities could take the initiative and have the capacity.

[winstars]

6. Fasten your seat belts, here comes REALITY...

[Demovictory9]

7. good