RE:20 second test This test was highlighted on her a few days ago based on it´s " success" at Heathrow Airport.
iAbra touted Heathrow as its ‘launch customer’ but doubts arise over the technology The “Virolens” test was unveiled last week by an obscure British tech company called iAbra But both Heathrow and Leidos said they had not actually placed any orders for the test, though Leidos said it was in “active negotiations”. If we made a slight, slight miswording of [our release], I apologise for everybody, but fundamentally, we’re trying to do a good thing for humanity as quickly as possible,” Mr Compton told the Financial Times.
But it is not entirely clear how the company calculated the test’s accuracy, and it seems that it may have misrepresented the involvement of virologists at the University of Bristol.
In its initial press release, the company said, “the Virolens® system has a 99.8% sensitivity and 96.7% specificity, based on the results of an internal in vitro validation study, designed by the University of Bristol, demonstrating an exciting proof of concept”.
But academics at Bristol university said they were not involved in any study that tested the sensitivity and specificity of the tests and complained about the wording of the release. Bristol university virologist David Matthews only provided samples of the Covid
19 virus to the company and was not in any way involved in its validation, he said. Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, said, “we are in a pandemic, people are dying from the disease, and a company decides that it is reasonable to mislead us all to make their test look like the best thing available19 virus to the company and was not in any way involved in its validation, he said.
That is a taste of what some will do to get a piece of this pie.
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