Biden approves $230m for Covid home test kits that take 15 minutes and are 95% accurate
Source: Independent.co.uk
Under the Biden administration, the Department of Defence and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have awarded an Australian-based company $230 million to scale up the manufacturing of its at-home Covid test. Ellumes at-home tests, which received emergency use authorisation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December, were 95 per cent accurate and provided users with Covid-19 results within 15 minutes.
Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to President Joe Bidens Covid response team, announced the million-dollar deal struck with Ellume during a press briefing on Monday. They could be used if you feel symptoms of Covid, and also for screening for people without symptoms so they could safely go to work, to school, and to events, Mr Slavitt said. After you take the swab, you put the sample into a digital analyser, which will send a result to your smartphone in about 15 minutes.
The money from this deal would scale-up the manufacturing of the at-home test so it could be more accessible to Americans. The test is offered over the counter at $30 per kit and sends the results to ones phone. With the money, Ellume would be able to produce 19 million at-home testing kits per month by the end of the year, 8.5 million of which were guaranteed for the federal government
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-covid-home-test-kits-budget-b1795902.html
babylonsister
(171,035 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Maxheader
(4,370 posts)Which might help isolate from others...prevent spreading...
Joinfortmill
(14,395 posts)msongs
(67,361 posts)My Pet Orangutan
(9,189 posts)Australian manufacturing is pretty limited.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)May seem trite to point it out - but we weren't used to seeing a president actually do his job.
Or do anything at all, that didn't in some way involve either crime, sin - or both.
My Pet Orangutan
(9,189 posts)I'm loving it.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)In our darkest hours, we've been blessed to have just the right person come in at the nick of time.
wiggs
(7,810 posts)tried to go with CDC tests that didn't work.
And there STILL aren't enough N95 masks to go around. Failure at every opportunity.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,757 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)You need a smart phone, either iphone or android (no ipads/tablets/laptops/desktops),a bluetooth connection and must download an app that can share your data/result with healthcare professionals. Presumably you also have to know how to swab your nasal passage correctly, too.