An interesting article on types of CV-19 tests

Sandoz created a new 15-minute test based on antibody detection. But they note a lack of reagents and personnel to administer these tests until maybe October at the earliest and more likely between March-April of 2021.

Directed by the FDA, Sandoz sent the test to UCSF, which determined it had a false negative rate of 14.8%.

So, if 100 million people are tested, 14.8 million will be infected, but they and everyone else won't know it.

Sandoz immediately accepted the findings and are working with the NIH, CDC and UCSF to fix it. Sandoz also won't charge anyone without insurance and who make less than $75,000 a year. If you have insurance, they'll charge what they can and waive the co-pay.

FWIW. I think this demonstrates a system finally working well. Mr. Orange Hair seems oblivious to this, so he hasn't taken credit for it yet. He will, but who cares at this point?

PS South Korea has identified 238 patients who were previously infected with Covid-19 and got infected again. 44 have died and in each case the symptoms were/are far worse than the first time, as opposed to less severe as might be expected. This might mean that Covid-19 is more deadly than supposed or that it has already mutated and either way will return with a vengeance in October or so and maybe will be far more nasty. Or not. Unlike politicians, scientists often say, "We dunno" or "We made a mistake." 

Articles in Nature and Science caution that the method of identifying and studying these cases doesn't contain a large enough sample size, lacks a control group, has yet to be verified from outside scientists and so is far from accurate verification using the scientific method. So no reason to panic. Yet. 

Until we discover that, due to fear, only 5% of people get a flu vaccine in the fall so the double whammy hits...