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Roche’s Cobas 8800 can do roughly ~4100 tests per day and this is a massive full-room setup. Many other RT-PCR capable machines exist out there (800 is the tot
by dakrisht 6y ago
Roche’s Cobas 8800 can do roughly ~4100 tests per day and this is a massive full-room setup.
Many other RT-PCR capable machines exist out there (800 is the total number in Europe cumulative) but this assumes an efficient point-of test > courier > lab > results process which many countries simply lack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575661