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The new year with an article of more testing hope. I still know many who wait days to get results. Here is a test that claims no nasal swab and 10 seconds with 99% accuracy – ok how long will it take to come to market if ever… https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/31/turkish-scientists-say-they-ve-developed-a-10-second-covid-19-test-that-is-99-accurate

“Scientists at a university research centre in Turkey claim they have developed an ultra-rapid coronavirus test with 99% accuracy that can return results within 10 seconds – all without needing to take a nasal swab.

The Diagnovir, developed by researchers at Bilkent University, is a diagnostic kit said to use nanotechnology to detect COVID-19 in a patient.

First, a swab is taken from the patient’s mouth before being mixed with a solution and added to a pathogen detection chip.

"It detects the presence of pathogens with high accuracy by receiving a fluorescent signal," said Ali Aytac Seyman, a researcher at the National Nanotechnology Research Centre (UNAM). He then pointed out that, unlike the widely-used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which detects specific genetic material in a sample before amplifying it, the Diagnovir "focuses on the existence or non-existence of the virus using advanced optical methods."

This, he says, can give a patient a positive result within 5-10 seconds, but would take up to 20 seconds if the result is negative. A PCR test, meanwhile, can take much longer. ”

Not the best way to the end the year with 3419 deaths plus 227K confirmation in the US. Brazil 1074 deaths – both UK and Mexico above 900

Once again a good issue of the US is California

And to be more precise southern CA – in particular LA.

Not too much dispersion

There goes much hope for an LA improvement – Deaths 7 day moving avg just spiked