This morning arrives: “Hey, I’m Friday the 13th, I’m scary, because bad things happen when I arrive.”
Monday through Thursday respond, “You’ve got a heck of a bar to clear, kid.”
The Morning’s Good News Regarding the Coronavirus
Testing is going to get faster, thanks to smart minds in several important institutions.
One is Roche Holding AG, a Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostic company:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted an “emergency use authorization” to the test, which runs on Roche’s cobas 6800/8800 systems. The tool also is available in Europe and countries that accept its CE marking for medical devices, Roche said.
The 8800 version is capable of testing 4,128 patients a day, and the 6800 can test as many as 1,440, the Basel, Switzerland-based company said.
“We are increasing the speed definitely by a factor of 10,” Thomas Schinecker, head of Roche’s diagnostics unit, said in an ...
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