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Breaking news: New saliva test approved. Game changer
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:41 pm
Andy Slavitt just tweeted FDA just approved a cheap saliva test for COVID. It will cost about $10 per test, can be performed at almost any lab in the country and results are fast. An NCAA team doctor called it a game changer. Suddenly it is no longer cost prohibitive to test each and every player each and every day. If they can test every day, they can isolate any positives before it spreads out of control. B1G really looking like fools now.
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Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:44 pm to phil4bama
I wouldn’t call it cheap considering you are testing about 200 people per day, but it works.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:45 pm to phil4bama
Who is ready for some SEC football? 
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:45 pm to phil4bama
Nice, when they swab Bana players they can swab their buttholes to test texas am players
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:45 pm to phil4bama
quote:anticipate the left finding a way to denounce this asap.
Andy Slavitt just tweeted FDA just approved a cheap saliva test for COVID. It will cost about $10 per test, can be performed at almost any lab in the country and results are fast. An NCAA team doctor called it a game changer. Suddenly it is no longer cost prohibitive to test each and every player each and every day. If they can test every day, they can isolate any positives before it spreads out of control. B1G really looking like fools now.
sad.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:46 pm to Auburn80
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I wouldn’t call it cheap considering you are testing about 200 people per day, but it works
Versus the current $100 per test and that’s a bulk price. Yeah $10 is a godsend.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:51 pm to Auburn80
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I wouldn’t call it cheap considering you are testing about 200 people per day, but it works.
$2k per day is a drop in the bucket for a Power 5 program if it means they can get actual football played this annum and the TV money that comes with it
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:52 pm to Auburn80
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I wouldn’t call it cheap considering you are testing about 200 people per day, but it works.
$2,000 a day for an athletic department that pulls in hundreds of millions? That's cheap.
This post was edited on 8/15/20 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 8/15/20 at 12:56 pm to David Ricky
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:10 pm to Auburn80
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I wouldn’t call it cheap considering you are testing about 200 people per day, but it works.
Versus not having football there's no comparison.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:10 pm to Auburn80
shite they spend more on snacks a day for these kids than 10 bucks
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:12 pm to Panthers4life
Thanks for the link, I couldn’t get mine to work.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:14 pm to phil4bama
Good to hear, but probably a near zero chance the test kits will be available for any sports team this year. Hospitals, nursing homes, health workers, they will be priority.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:17 pm to Tidemeister
That’s part of the beauty of it: there are no “kits”. The test is done with materials the labs already have on hand. The tweet thread said it would be available to everyone within weeks.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:20 pm to phil4bama
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That’s part of the beauty of it: there are no “kits”. The test is done with materials the labs already have on hand. The tweet thread said it would be available to everyone within weeks.
Hope it happens, thx for info
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:44 pm to Auburn80
10% of original cost and you compare that to no revenue coming in? Yawn
This tells you a lot about the NCAA medical “experts”
They didn’t want to play the season not because tests weren’t available, but because the costs of tests were going to make it difficult for most of college football to afford the testing. So, the ruling is, we are against playing the season, and screw the leagues and programs that could have afforded the higher costs. If I am seeing it wrong, feel free to show me why, and I mean that sincerely.
This tells you a lot about the NCAA medical “experts”
They didn’t want to play the season not because tests weren’t available, but because the costs of tests were going to make it difficult for most of college football to afford the testing. So, the ruling is, we are against playing the season, and screw the leagues and programs that could have afforded the higher costs. If I am seeing it wrong, feel free to show me why, and I mean that sincerely.
This post was edited on 8/15/20 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:10 pm to phil4bama
Still a 1 to 2 day turnaround...need lots of the 15 minute test
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:18 pm to hubreb
Yay capitalism.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:19 pm to phil4bama
Andy Slavitt is a sky-screaming idiot. He talks a big game but he has been entirely incorrect in all of his COVID assessments. He thought COVID was the end of humanity.
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:20 pm to phil4bama
I hope it is more accurate than the PCR test.
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