North Carolina startup gets approval for COVID-19 test that works in 15 minutes

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North Carolina startup gets approval for COVID-19 test that works in 15 minutes

https://abc11.com/coronavirus-nc-test-biomedomics-rapid/6046726


By Jonah Kaplan

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:11PM
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Old North State is rich in history, and a biotechology startup is adding its name to that history with one a COVID-19 breakthrough.

BioMedomics, Inc., a small research and development firm in Research Triangle Park, created one of the world's first rapid tests to detect COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The test only requires a small blood sample and can deliver results within 15 minutes.

"I think this type of test certainly is a game changer," Kent Lupino, Director of Marketing & Product Management, tells ABC11. "Antibody-based rapid tests like ours are well-suited for initially screening patients at the point-of-care, because they are fast and don't require any laboratory equipment to conduct the test."

How it works is a big part of why it's fast: instead of trying to detect the virus' genetic signature, or RNA, the BioMedomics test measures how the patient's body is reacting to the virus. In other words, it checks whether the body's immune system is reacting to the virus - or something else.

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[duforsure]

1. Where's the federal government?

Why haven't they started this sooner? Because of the trump failures they refuse to mass produce test kits. trumps refusal and abandonment of helping the states exposes his contempt for the Governors and their people they serve. trumps been MIA on this crisis all along and will then claim he's saved us again, but he's lying , he's made everything much worse. Still he is doing nothing to help these Governors other than tweeting insults and lies at them. A complete failure from trump. The gop are enabling him to do this to us now too.

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2. You miss the point

HE has to be the one to save the world. He (and those rethugs that do his bdding) has already shown that he will play with the lives of the people of his country in the name of his ego. He has already shown he will do nothing until whatever comes up is beneficial to his wallet. Why he is still in that office I have no idea, except that the truth of the social programming that has happened to this country becomes inescapable.