Coronavirus Test Developed, And Available, At Evanston (IL) Hospital, With Results In Just Hours

[sabra]

Source: CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — As the United States desperately scrambles to find enough tests for COVID-19, a hospital in Evanston has developed one that can provide results in just a few hours.

The test, created in the Molecular Lab at North Shore University Health System, Evanston Hospital, was first used last Thursday. The lab has conducted 400 tests to day, with 10 percent testing positive for COVID 19. The hospital aims to be able to test 1,000 by next week. It has been used mostly for their hospital patients, but it has been made available for some patients at other hospitals as well.

“We started in January watching this knowing that we would not have enough tests,” said Dr. Karen Kaul.

Many patients, even if they can get a test, have to wait days for results. The Evanston Hospital test is much faster with results in four to six hours. Researchers take a swab specimen from deep inside the patient’s nose and are able to determine whether it contains DNA from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Evanston is one of only a handful of hospitals in the United States that has developed a diagnostic test for COVID 19. Researchers there also developed a test for H1N1 during that outbreak 12 years ago.



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[DonaldsRump]

1. Let's call it the "Trump Virus"...give credit where it's due. n/t

[RealityChik]

11. Oh, man...this idea is pure BRILLIANCE!

I love it! So apropos!

[SunSeeker]

2. The feds need to pay them to make enough of these tests for the whole country.

Do whatever it takes, have the Army Corps of Engineers build labs and warehouses. This is a fucking emergency. The White House is dithering while we die!!

[not fooled]

7. Naw

red don wants to make sure his donors can grift off the public for testing.

A few more dead citizens because of the delay doesn't count, in his eyes.

[RealityChik]

12. WA state also has their own...

Backups/delays still exists because of sheer volume of tests to be processed. Last time I looked, results same day.

BTW: Kaiser Permanente, Seattle started its COVID-19 vaccine human trials yesterday. 100 brave, young, healthy souls volunteered. Hope it's fast-tracked by the FDA if successful.

AP NEWS: Coronavirus Vaccine Test Opens With 1st Doses
https://apnews.com/76b614811eef32955180c8260188bc24

[lunasun]

3. Good news for us in Chicago and the whole area . I'm on the south side but it would be reachable

and they are sharing with other hospitals . Plus with quick turn around before someone can get sicker and still be waiting. If you are already contacting a hospital or in one you are sick and need to know what it is
Wonder if we will see an increase here in #s once people are actually tested and a more clear count

[Demonaut]

4. how accurate is it?, any tests confirm this?

[mwooldri]

5. I'm more intrigued by this: handheld test, 10 minute results.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/ten-minute-coronavirus-test-could-be-game-changer-for-africa

Tests for $1 apiece instead of $400 in a lab.

Plus if the news from Queensland Australia is anything to go by, Covid-19 may have a treatment available, using an earlier generation HIV and malaria drug combination.

https://amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-queensland-researchers-find-cure-want-drug-trial/news-story/93e7656da0cff4fc4d2c5e51706accb5

[Dem2theMax]

6. I wonder who else should have thought of something like this?

"We started in January watching this knowing that we would not have enough tests,” said Dr. Karen Kaul.

[C Moon]

8. Putin, the GOP and Trump are not going to like this.

[Lonestarblue]

9. The WHO test was available in January.

The media needs to investigate and then report why the Trump administration refused to use it. Lack of testing helped the virus spread during January, February, and March. Also, why did the CDC insist that tests be sent to them to determine infection when they took up to a week while private labs could turn around the results much faster?

Were these decisions all because Trump planned to deny that the virus had reached the US by preventing testing?

[lagomorph777]

10. We know why. Trump's cronies wanted to profiteer by selling their own test.

[Captain Zero]

13. yep google, cadre, oscar, kushner.

I hope all these other tests beat them into healthcare.

Google is all bought into this Kushner scheme and their money will be earned by directing everyone to a Kushner test kit and test site. They will be controlling the test results and reporting too.

I don't want anything of mine swabbed by a Trump Crime Family company.

[lagomorph777]

14. Eww! Swabbed by a Trumpie!

Aaaaaarrrggh! Keep yer swab outta my face, Swabbie!