CHF7.20 per piece for 3 units
Flowflex SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test
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Question about Flowflex SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test
In view today: A Coop Vitality pharmacy, for example, sells the "Flowflex Sars-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test". The only problem is that this test can only detect four per cent of infections with a high viral load, as the newspapers write. At moderate viral loads, the test fails completely. => in principle unusable
"A study by the renowned Statens Serum Institut (SSI) in Denmark investigated the reliability of various antigen rapid tests available on the market for the SARS CoV-2 variants, Delta, Strain SARS-CoV-2/hu/DK/SSI-H11 and Omikron Strain SARS-CoV-2/hu/DK/SSI-H46. The Flowflex SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test from Acon Biotech Co., Ltd. proved to be the most reliable SARS CoV-2 rapid antigen test in detecting the Delta and Omikron variants.
This study by the SSI confirmed results already obtained in a study conducted by the UK Health Security Agency on 17 December 2021, demonstrating excellent and reliable detection of the SARS CoV-2 virus variant Omikron. The same result is also confirmed by a study published on 22 December 2021, "Analytical sensitivity of seven SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid tests for Omicron variant", by the Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals.
"One test, Flowflex (ACON biotech) showed the highest overall sensitivity for all SARS-CoV-2 isolates used compared to the others, and here, Omicron was detected with even slightly higher sensitivity than Delta but still lower than Alpha, Beta, Gamma and pre-VOC SARS-CoV-2" -Statement of the study by Isabella Eckerle, Prof. University Hospital Geneva.(1)"
"The test method has a relative sensitivity of 97.1% and a relative specificity of 99.5%."
https://www.presseportal.ch/de...
It's not a question from Ccerulli, but a statement that we support: Flowflex unusable.