I am more concerned about the Antibody testing going on.
It looks like the dipstick tests that can be unreliable. These things we manufactured so quickly that I am guessing
that proper testing wasn't done and they were unleashed on the world.
Here the UK bought 2M test at 10 ea and they don't work
Facing a global scramble for materials, British officials bought millions of unproven kits from China in a gamble that became an embarrassment.
www.nytimes.com
Take a look at the serological labeled tests. Almost none have any government approval.
360Dx regularly updates this tracker to provide readers with accurate information on the regulatory status of these tests in the US, European, and Asian markets.
www.360dx.com
Most of them come from China and the ones in the NYT article
"The two Chinese companies offering the antibody tests,
AllTest Biotech and
Wondfo Biotech, both said their products met the health, safety and environmental standards set by the European Union. "
Now AllTest is on that 360dx list under:
Hangzhou AllTest Biotech | AllTest 2019-nCoV IgG/IgM Rapid Test Cassette, AllTest COVID IgG/IgM Rapid Test Dipstick |
which shows EUA is not required
Promedical | COVID-19 Rapid Test, Wondfo SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test (Lateral Flow Method) | | | | |
Also shows EUA not required
There kinds of tests are Point of Care tests and they should be verified with another, more accurate test.
Just like the HIV dipstick tests that have been around for quite some time, and positive needs to be verified
by PCR or at the minimum, an ELISA. My feeling is that these were slapped together pretty fast for sale
and on these IgM/IgG dipstick tests, I would not base a pos result as the final say so without followup testing.