7 Nov'20 - not AT1 or partner related. US nursing homes
This is originally Wall Street Journal article (behind paywall) but its available free via below site
Long article but informative about the US administrative dis-connects and general mis-trust circulating amongst the US medical communities, regarding Ag RDT understanding, usage, feedback and training.
The Ag RDTs referenced in the article are:
- Ag RDT machines made by Becton Dickinson & Co. + Quidel Corp. (US gov purchase costs ~US$116m to supply ~14k nursing homes nationwide)
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- fast Ag RDT by Abbott Laboratories (BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card) (US gov purchase costs ~$760 million for total 150m test stockpile).
FYI, Abbott'sRDT includes a free smartphone app called NAVICA, which enables those tested to receive their results directly on their mobile devices—bypassing the patient’s primary care physicians (which has also unfortunately increased the US infection data collection-reporting confusion as different states have different Covid19 tracing and reporting rules)
