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Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 07:29 AM Mar 2020

UK epidemic slowing, antibody test could be ready in days per top epidemiologist

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-epidemic/uk-epidemic-is-slowing-and-antibody-test-could-be-ready-in-days-top-epidemiologist-says-idUSKBN21H0SA

"The coronavirus epidemic in the United Kingdom is showing signs of slowing and antibody tests could be ready in days, Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said on Monday.


"We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now,” Ferguson told BBC radio.
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But Ferguson cautioned that the data was not good enough to make firm extrapolations.

He said antibody tests were in the final stage of validation right now and could be hopefully ready to use in “days rather than weeks”......(more)

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UK epidemic slowing, antibody test could be ready in days per top epidemiologist (Original Post) Tanuki Mar 2020 OP
That seems awfully quick to me DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #1
Hope Springs Eternal, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #2

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
1. That seems awfully quick to me
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 07:37 AM
Mar 2020

I am no expert, but if the UK only recently went into lockdown, it seems far too quick that anyone can say that it's slowing down there.

I hope that it is, but I am curious.

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