Stanford University test for COVID-19 receives FDA approval

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https://www.ktvu.com/news/stanford-test-for-covid-19-receives-fda-approval

STANFORD, Calif. - Encouraging news in the fight to stem the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus). Stanford researchers say they’ve developed a test that could be ready to use by the end of the week. That test has already received FDA approval.

“Basically it’s a test that um as I said detects the viral nucleic acid, the RNA and that identifies the organism,” said Dr. Stan Deresinkski, a clinical professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University.

He said test subjects are swabbed in the nose and mouth for a sample. That sample is then tested, and roughly six hours later, will determine if the patient is positive or negative for Coronavirus. Deresinski said the test is highly sensitive and accurate.

“The laboratory here is going to be required to send their first five positive samples and five negative samples to the CDC for them to retest to confirm the accuracy of the test,” he said.

The tests here at Stanford could begin by the end of the week, and would involve people who are symptomatic, and who’ve either been in contact with someone who has coronavirus, or who have traveled to a highly infectious area. The next hurdle for doctors – developing a cure. Experts say that isn’t likely before the late summer or fall, at the earliest.

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1. One of the reasons why

I chose Stanford as my health care provider. When shit goes down, being a patient of one of the top university medical systems is a good thing.

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2. Wait a minute. I thought the Free Market Pharmaceutical Companies were supposed to save us.

You know, the businessmen motivated by profit that would find innovative ways to help us.

Not a bunch of eggheads at a college. What is their motivation?