Want to see the cost of a COVID 19 test kit? Here are some examples.

[trof]

Assay Genie website:

https://www.assaygenie.com/coronavirus-assays/

[Ananda62]

1. Everlywell kit

Everlywell will be offering an in home test kit beginning 3/23 for $135. But, you need to answer the screening questions and be approved by a tele-doctor to get the kit.
https://apple.news/AE3-OM3eWQxug135lpq20Zw

[qwlauren35]

2. This is one of those days

When I hate capitalism.

Whatever happened to those "no gouging" restrictions?

[Journeyman]

3. The two I looked at seem to be priced between $6.73 and $23.38 . . .

can't say what the lab will charge for processing and the like, but that's the base cost for each assay in the kit.

[trof]

5. Those are commas, not decimal points.

What country are you in?

[Journeyman]

8. I'm conversant with long division and reading comprehension . . .

The COVID-19 CE IVD qPCR assay kit, top row, third from the left, is priced at $2,245.00 (I added the decimal to avoid confusion).

There are 96 assays in the kit.

$2,245.00 divided by 96 = $23.39

The last kit on the page, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Detection Kit - One-Step RT-qPCR Kit for Coronavirus Detection (Strain 2019-nCoV), is priced at $673.00 to $26,341.00.

When you click on the link, however, only the $673.00 is given. (I suspect the $26,341.00 may be bulk purchase – probably for a case – it works out to a little under 40 times the $673.00 price.)

Here, too, there are 96 assays in the kit.

$673.00 divided by 96 = $7.01

Now, in addition to this, the lab will have a service fee, handling fees, and the cost of the Analyzer to factor in (though both tests seem to work with a variety of cyclers from companies as diverse as Roche, Bio-Rad and Applied Biosystem), which I'm certain will multiply the cost by a factor of 10 or more -- or it could be 100. No doubt it will be too much for anyone without insurance or assistance.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Good to see that someone is making money off death. It's the American way

[GeorgeGist]

6. I'm seeing this one at $10/ test ...

https://www.assaygenie.com/covid-19-qpcr-assay-kit/


Price shown is for 150 samples.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Remember - a "kit" creates 1000 tests.

Used at the normal rate, with some used for calibration, a "kit" tests somewhere between 300 and 400 people.

[Bluesaph]

9. Now we know why Trump rejected WHO kits