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UNITED BIOMEDICAL GROUP’S C19 COMPANY PARTNERS WITH SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO TO BE FIRST IN NATION TO TEST AN ENTIRE COUNTY FOR COVID-19 WITH NEW ANTIBODY DIAGNOSTIC TEST
Telluride, CO (March 19, 2020) –United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) and its subsidiary c19 are taking on the COVID-19 pandemic by partnering with San Miguel County, Colorado, to be the first in the United States to test an entire county with their COVID-19 antibody test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The testing is being offered free of charge by UBI and c19 and will be administered by the Public Health Department of San Miguel County, with the goal of detecting and containing community spread, and providing a more accurate assessment of disease prevalence.
“We are thankful for UBI/c19 for taking the leadership to offer these accurate blood tests to our entire county, free of charge, which can be instrumental in saving lives,” said Dr. Sharon Grundy, Public Health Medical Officer for San Miguel County and Medical Director of Primary Care at the Telluride Medical Center. “When we reported this in our county meeting, the entire team cried.”
UBI is a leading international biopharmaceutical group that has successfully developed diagnostics and vaccines for chronic and infectious diseases for more than 30 years. The company has developed an antibody blood screening test for COVID-19 and, at the same time, is progressing a vaccine for COVID-19, which is currently in animal testing. The company is leveraging its prior work with SARS and its extensive collaborations in China, Taiwan and the world, to validate and commercialize this antibody diagnostic test and vaccine through existing manufacturing infrastructure. Through its c19 subsidiary, the company will be one of the first in the nation to offer these antibody tests.
“We have the technology to test with high accuracy and we believe it is our civil responsibility to help serve our communities,” said Mei Mei Hu and Lou Reese, co-founders of UBI’s c19. “We will start with our beloved and isolated town of Telluride and diligently expand through San Miguel, Colorado. Our goal is to show what mass testing and strategic isolation can do together to stop the spread of infection, and to create a model that could save lives worldwide.” A similar test was conducted in Vo, Italy, and the rate of infection was lowered by 90%.
Need for more high-quality, reliable tests
The COVID-19 pandemic has mandated a critical need for rapid and accurate testing throughout the US and internationally. The RT-PCR tests currently being employed are useful at detecting active infections; however, they have important limitations and restrictions. These include variability in accuracy, practical challenges to testing large scale populations, and ability to only detect active infections without being able to determine if someone has been previously infected. As a result, these tests are restricted in application and unable to accurately inform public health officials of the true scope of an outbreak.
The CDC has called for serological antibody tests to be developed and the World Health Organization (WHO) urged all outbreak areas to immediately begin testing with such tests to better track and contain community spread. Antibody tests can help complement RT-PCR tests for a more accurate diagnosis. It can be deployed at large scale to identify asymptomatic patients and those who have already been infected and then recovered, and to provide a more accurate assessment of prevalence of infection and fatality rate.
The UBI/c19 antibody test is accurate and ready for distribution
UBI’s c19 has developed a high-precision antibody blood diagnostic test that has been validated in China, Taiwan and California labs and has virtually 100% sensitivity and specificity in patients who have developed antibodies against the virus (seroconverted). The tests are manufactured in Long Island, N.Y. and can differentiate between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses (e.g., HKU1 and NL63). Results can be obtained within a couple hours. While the company has submitted to the FDA for Emergency Use Authorization, under new FDA guidance this week recognizing the urgent need for access to more high-quality testing, UBI/c19 antibody tests will now be available for use by and marketed to U.S. laboratories prior to EUA.
UBI/c19 also has a COVID-19 vaccine in development that is currently in animal testing. The company’s platform technology has been commercialized in millions of animal health vaccines against infectious disease and tested in multiple human trials for other indications.
https://www.sanmiguelcountyco.gov/Ci...s.aspx?AID=478
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RandomGuy
best guess was .5% at the outset. been running around 1% in most places.
US just passed the 1,000 death mark.
Based on the Iceland data, it's probably closer to 0.01%.
But, they are probably a way healthier society than ours.
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https://youtu.be/Zy4JX7qlGa8
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You ain't even seen the worst of the young and dumb behavior this week. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronav...nton-missouri/
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Its everywhere in the usa
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TSA
Government is short on supplies for this for sure, even though Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Healthy Security ranked the US the best prepared worldwide for a pandemic.
Who’s responsible for keeping New York hospitals supplied, the US gov or the governor?
Mostly private companies who don't want to stockpile anything.
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DMC
Show me your cries from a month ago to increase stocks of these supplies.
I'm open minded.
Wait, so if nobody complained a month ago, it's not happening? Come on son, you know better than this.
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Wait, so if nobody complained a month ago, it's not happening? Come on son, you know better than this.
:lol DuMbC
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TSA
Government is short on supplies for this for sure, even though Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Healthy Security ranked the US the best prepared worldwide for a pandemic.
Who’s responsible for keeping New York hospitals supplied, the US gov or the governor?
Both, honestly. It's not like NY hasn't been requesting aid from the federal government to handle this pandemic for at least a week or more.
At this point one would have to conclude that the federal government is not suited to provide the required resources either. Heck, POTUS was saying about a month ago how the government was purchasing all these supplies, where are they?
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Based on the Iceland data, it's probably closer to 0.01%.
But, they are probably a way healthier society than ours.
Iceland probably did the same things that germany did to limit outbreaks. The kinds of things that a competent, science-based socialist response would do, with universal health care.
We won't do that in the US. Conservatism and free markets will consign us to a higher death rate.
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midnightpulp
Consider the size of our population. Italy is at 124 deaths per million people. Germany is a 2 deaths per million. We're at 3.
I think it's safe to say NY is reporting at GMT... went from 14 to 95 in a jiffy :td
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ElNono
Wait, so if nobody complained a month ago, it's not happening? Come on son, you know better than this.
He really doesn't.
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weak rebuttal
not wrong though
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midnightpulp
Consider the size of our population. Italy is at 124 deaths per million people. Germany is a 2 deaths per million. We're at 3.
... so far. Such metrics are meaningless at the beginning of an outbreak.
"that asteroid hasn't killed anybody yet..."
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Madrid’s Ice Rink Turned Into Morgue as Spain Exceeds China in COVID-19 Deaths
https://truthout.org/video/madrids-i...vid-19-deaths/
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midnightpulp
Consider the size of our population. Italy is at 124 deaths per million people. Germany is a 2 deaths per million. We're at 3.
I've been tracking death rate since we crossed 20k cases, and it's been progressively getting worse and worse, as it was somewhat expected. Started at 0.9, we're at 1.5 today.
And this is with NY having the bulk of the issues, and I'm not ready to say the system collapsed there yet, but they have one of the best hospital networks in the country in the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell system, and a lot of hospitals, so this really, really spells trouble for the smaller cities and towns.
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ElNono
I've been tracking death rate since we crossed 20k cases, and it's been progressively getting worse and worse, as it was somewhat expected. Started at 0.9, we're at 1.5 today.
And this is with NY having the bulk of the issues, and I'm not ready to say the system collapsed there yet, but they have one of the best hospital networks in the country in the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell system, and a lot of hospitals, so this really, really spells trouble for the smaller cities and towns.
NY is a very scary situation. Just the perfect environment for this thing to snowball for the reasons we've talked about. They had their first case a month and half after California and Washington, so it's not like they're ahead. I think mass transit might be the big culprit here. The UK is taking off, as well.
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Some good news:
From WH press conference:
Dr. Brix
- 50% of new cases are in the NYC metro area
- NYC new case growth is flattening
- # of NYC hospitalizations projected to increase next week
- Criticized models that show a massive increase in # cases as they "aren’t based on the reality"
Dr. Fauci
- Believes that COVID-19 is probably seasonal
- Looking for the curve to begin bending down
- It will rapidly decline based on the pattern of other nations
- Must be careful to prevent a second outbreak
:tu warm weather theory
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midnightpulp
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midnightpulp
Some good news:
From WH press conference:
Dr. Brix
- 50% of new cases are in the NYC metro area
- NYC new case growth is flattening
- # of NYC hospitalizations projected to increase next week
- Criticized models that show a massive increase in # cases as they "aren’t based on the reality"
Dr. Fauci
- Believes that COVID-19 is probably seasonal
- Looking for the curve to begin bending down
- It will rapidly decline based on the pattern of other nations
- Must be careful to prevent a second outbreak
:tu warm weather theory
Great news. Hopefully they'll be able run them clinical trials on the northerners and other countries before I get it. This will give the government more time to increase our medical capacity. Further increase the virus testing and antibodies tests. In the meantime I should probably get healthier tbh
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ElNono
I've been tracking death rate since we crossed 20k cases, and it's been progressively getting worse and worse, as it was somewhat expected. Started at 0.9, we're at 1.5 today.
And this is with NY having the bulk of the issues, and I'm not ready to say the system collapsed there yet, but they have one of the best hospital networks in the country in the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell system, and a lot of hospitals, so this really, really spells trouble for the smaller cities and towns.
Today is the day we will pass italy for number of diagnosed cases. Some time today or Tomorrow, we will pass the reported number for china (to be clear: no one believes their data)
The fucked up part of this is that Trump is viewing this as "look its Democratic governors who aren't kissing my ass". You ding me for hating this fuckwad too much.
You hate him too little. He is a venal, narcissistic conman sociopath. That is killing people, and will kill people.
That is evil, straight up. Fuck you TSA.
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Today is the day we will pass italy for number of diagnosed cases. Some time today or Tomorrow, we will pass the reported number for china (to be clear: no one believes their data)
The fucked up part of this is that Trump is viewing this as "look its Democratic governors who aren't kissing my ass". You ding me for hating this fuckwad too much.
You hate him too little. He is a venal, narcissistic conman sociopath. That is killing people, and will kill people.
That is evil, straight up. Fuck you TSA.
There's no point in hating anybody at this point, tbh... what you can do is let your voice be heard come November and beyond.
In the meantime, try to take care of yourself and loved ones, try to help if you can. We're all in this together no matter what team you root for.
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ElNono
There's no point in hating anybody at this point, tbh... what you can do is let your voice be heard come November and beyond.
In the meantime, try to take care of yourself and loved ones, try to help if you can. We're all in this together no matter what team you root for.
It doesn't cost me anything extra to sit here and hate on Trump. Especially when I don't think he has the same sense of us all being in this together.
I'll give him ten days before he goes Lt Gov Patrick mode.
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It doesn't cost me anything extra to sit here and hate on Trump. Especially when I don't think he has the same sense of us all being in this together.
I'll give him ten days before he goes Lt Gov Patrick mode.
Hey, anybody spend their time however they want. I have better things to do that get bitter over a guy I have no control of.
