tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615497490885488809.post4657747104141772571..comments2023-09-25T05:27:11.341-07:00Comments on Shepherd Of The Gurneys: Number Crunching Reported CasesAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615497490885488809.post-8962239158621267602014-12-13T01:19:40.080-08:002014-12-13T01:19:40.080-08:00So its a distributed patients centralised lab prob...So its a distributed patients centralised lab problem.<br />Makes senseTrThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07316335177828136131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615497490885488809.post-55700175595286103882014-12-12T14:34:51.442-08:002014-12-12T14:34:51.442-08:00Maybe not the Nobel Prize, but Asst. Minister of P...Maybe not the Nobel Prize, but Asst. Minister of Public Health in any or all three of the primarily affected countries is well within the realm of possibility.<br /><br />Likely though they'd just steal the idea, and leave you with nothing, if they're not already working on it.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615497490885488809.post-67086356804998394582014-12-12T12:32:03.401-08:002014-12-12T12:32:03.401-08:00My understanding is that the bottleneck with the t...My understanding is that the bottleneck with the testing is related more to transporting the samples than it is to the actual test. Roads are bad, vehicles are in short supply, and the whole thing is quite disorganized (leading to inefficient use of resources, e.g. transporting a single sample at a time to the lab). But to compare, when there's a possible case that turns up in the U.S., test results seem to come back about half a day later, usually. In Africa, the turnaround time is several days.<br /><br />Interestingly, there was an article back in mid-November that Sierra Leone had greatly increased its testing capacity with the opening of a newly-built British lab, reducing turnaround time for Ebola tests from nine days(!) to two. That corresponds with the time-frame of the case numbers in SL starting to go up suddenly. So the sudden surge of new cases in SL may just be a reflection of greater testing capacity rather than how fast the virus is spreading. That's... not good.<br /><br />Hey, here's an idea: if we shut down all the labs, we can officially declare the Ebola epidemic "over", with zero additional confirmed cases. I should get the Nobel Prize for Medicine for that, right?Troy Jones IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09488314846005565918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615497490885488809.post-47211750604026409322014-12-12T11:15:58.008-08:002014-12-12T11:15:58.008-08:00How does a pcr test take?
I tried to Wikipedia it ...How does a pcr test take?<br />I tried to Wikipedia it but, well, you probably know better.<br />Is it a fully automatic process or lots of manual intervention?<br /><br />I hit on the 'its not peak cases its peak testing' idea, just wondering how hard testing is?<br />Are med techs measured in tests per minute, hour or day?TrThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07316335177828136131noreply@blogger.com