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  1. 1 hour ago, MadBurgerMaker said:

    Just got an email saying the clinical pathology department is wanting to borrow certain types of qPCRs from the labs/departments that have them (which includes mine) for COVID-19 testing purposes.  QuantStudio 3, for those interested in that sort of thing. 

    Anyhow, I wonder if this is going on at all the other similar places.  Never thought about it, but those things are fairly pricey (I want to say something like 50-60k) and I suppose there aren't all THAT many of them.  There were only three on the list. 

    The ABI Fast 7500 DX is a hot commodity right now since for a while that was the only machine specified by the CDC. I heard that Thermo was going to discontinue it but now they can't keep up with production.

  2. 12 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    It is wrong that I would expect the travis county data to be better basically 3 weeks into social distancing and nearly two weeks into lockdown.  We are adding cases at an alarming rate, with most of them between teh ages of 20-50. 

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    I have some colleagues that support testing labs in Texas and they have told me last week that the back log for tests was 4-5 days, so these numbers are also probably that far behind too.

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  3. 41 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Not seeing a location, but is Nashville a hotspot?

    Nashville has a 2-300 cases I think, but they still are having trouble getting tests and convincing people to stay home. It appears that he got it from his wife.

     

     

     

     

  4. 23 hours ago, Bevo said:

    The RNA isolation seems to be a holdup, but a more complete answer is:

     

    I've heard from a lot of my coworkers in the field that RNA isolation reagent kits (Qiagen) are becoming hard to get.

    There are quite a few test and extraction kits/instruments available, but it's a matter of getting them in the lab and the people trained. From what I've seen the majority of labs use a Qiagen platform, so if Qiagen is having trouble keeping up with demand everyone is screwed. 

    Could be time for the lab techs to kick it old school with some manual phenol chloroform extractions.

     

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Hornbeliever said:

    New to apocalypses here so have newbie question.  Why the rush to go buy water?  Are people thinking shit will get so bad that tap water will be affected? 

    This question comes up every few pages.

    General consensus is that people are accustomed to buying water for other freakouts, so it's force of habit.

    Or, that water is so cheap they can't afford not to but it.

  6. 4 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    Holy fuck, did anyone else just hear Trump talk about this? We're so so so fucked. 

    Just watched his press conference. Didn't think my opinion of him could get any lower, but I was wrong. Especially liked how our new tests are "perfect, just like the letter, just like the phone call, and just like the transcript, well maybe not as perfect but close".

     

    Also not wanting to bring the people off of the cruise ship because it will make our numbers go up.

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