: Sensitivity and Specificity evaluations and cost of the Abbott ID Now SARS-COV-2 test platform Seeking information about the ABBOTT ID NOW test platform used to diagnose COVID-19. Apparently Abbott purchased the analyzer

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Sensitivity and Specificity evaluations and cost of the Abbott ID Now SARS-COV-2 test platform
Seeking information about the ABBOTT ID NOW test platform used to diagnose COVID-19.

Apparently Abbott purchased the analyzer business from Alere Inc, in 2018 that had developed the analyzer to provide point-of-contact in vitro diagnostics (IVD) of influenza A & B.

Published evaluations of the effectiveness of the Alere product analysis placed the sensitivity in the low 90% range with influenza A&B, and lower yet for specificity (distinguishing between A & B)

Now that the test analyzer is being utilized for COVID-19 diagnosis, I had some questions:

What is the cost of the analyzer, how many analyzers (repurposed for COVID-19 detection) are already in the field and finally what is the S&S for this analyzer when coupled with the COVID-19 specimen acquisition/test reagent kit?

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