[nkrumm]

This sort of rapid test (say, results in under 4 hours from collection) is useful in a few different acute situations:

- Patients needing emergent surgery while also presenting with symptoms concerning for COVID-19.

- Critical healthcare workers (physicians, nurses needing rule out and rapid return to work)

- Patients presenting who may have contributed to exposure of other high risk individuals (to speed up time of tracing)

Your other points are valid.

[40four]

Ok, good thinking. Those are all pretty good use cases for a 15 minute test, assuming they can actually achieve that.

Maybe I’m just too sour and frustrated with the whole situation in the USA, and had to vent a little bit, my fault :(

This does actually sound like nice technology where they can pump out test results from this little appliance sized device on site.

Other rapid (result in hours) I’ve read about still require sending specimens to a remote lab. Let’s just hope they can manufacture them like crazy, and quickly get them to the health workers that need them most.