The news: Coronavirus - Abbott launches a $5 Covid-19 test, 15 min turnaround. No lab required.

  • 5 bucks
  • 15 minutes
  • No laboratory work

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The test has been given (emergency use) FDA approval. Abbott says they deliver tens of millions of the rapid-response Covid-19 antigen tests in September. Next month.

Before you get on a plane, $5 test.

Before you get in a restaurant, ditto.

Before you get into the nightclub, cinema, whatever .... ditto again.

That's the import of this news. Fast-tracking it could allow a close approach to normality.

The news: Coronavirus - Abbott launches a $5 Covid-19 test, 15 min turnaround. No lab required.

Over to the nay-sayers now ...