Re: [DIYbio] DIY COVID-19 PCR test

I'd like to be able to test myself.  I'm cancelling events because I have had a tiny dry throat for 3 days that's almost certainly a "normal" seasonal bug.  The local advice for us is to self isolate if unsure / you're probably fine at the moment.  Neither of these are satisfying for me.  These approaches also don't help as I will need to buy food sooner or later and I'd like to go to the shops when I'm not contagious but I only have 3 weeks food supply so it's not possible to just sit at home for now.

It would be great to be able to provide an open source solution for 1000s of people out there who want to test themselves or offer to test people they can't avoid being around like their family, friends and co-workers.  If we're going to be sat next to them any way then it would be great to know that, as of this morning, your viral load is undetectable through this particular protocol / tool combo.

Thoughts, criticism, agreement welcomed.

With kind regards,

AJP

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 7:22:54 AM UTC, Jonathan Cline wrote:

This is a terrible idea.  No one in a DIY community should be actively going within 50' of someone who wants a covid swab test.  This is a highly contagious virus.  It is not something you want to do for the LoL's or the rep's.  The first medical doctor (and others, probably) who treated patients in China is now dead himself.  It is not something you want to do in a community environment, where, once you are infected from the DIY patient solicitations, you also infect others in the ad hoc unprotected community lab, since you may not show outward symptoms for a week or more.  Do some critical thinking, eh?   This is not the DIY project you are looking for.

On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 4:20:57 PM UTC-8, Thomas Landrain wrote:

Hi there from Paris, France,

Great initiative! 

I'd love to help organize a community of contributors aiming to design a DIY 2019-nCoV diagnosis test. I'm a biologist myself

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I also believe we should start organizing our DIYbio community around this very goal and research various ways to provide DIY/cheap 2019-nCoV testing abilities and methodologies that are well documented and that can be reviewed by the international community too. 

Let me know if you like this idea and if yes, we can start documenting the projects on JOGL and mobilize people around them. 

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