[zmmmmm]

All the material on your page talks about throughput but not turnaround time which makes me quite suspicious that it's not very good. Obviously, however, if it takes 2 weeks to do the test then it has very limited utility as the person will have recovered (or had an adverse outcome) anyway. Since it cannot be administered at the point of care I am imagining that you are already up against a day or so of logistics just to get a sample to the testing location.

Can you please comment on the actual realistic turnaround time for the test?

[dvdt]

A turn around time of 24-36 hours should be easily achievable for the performing lab, depending on the time of day the specimen arrives (morning vs afternoon). It takes about 1 hour for the initial RT-PCR amplification, and sequencing takes about 12 hours.

[zmmmmm]

Thanks - that's not too bad.

If people can sort out logistics well enough then it sounds like it could be extremely helpful for implementing broad scale testing.