A Lafayette drug testing company reaches a deal with suppliers to provide a test that will show patients within ten minutes whether they have coronavirus antibodies.
Global Data Fusion Founder and CEO Ed Roy says the test process is easy and only requires participants to give a small prick of blood from their fingertip.
“That little droplet of blood is put in a cassette and the cassette is read in ten minutes,” says Roy.
Roy says the test is highly accurate and provides patients two important pieces of information.
“It will test whether or not you currently have the virus or have been exposed to it within a little as a day ago, and also if you have ever had the virus in the past,” says Roy.
Data from Baton Rouge General showed of 432 anti-body tests conducted 4.4 percent were positive.
Having anti-bodies may indicate you are now immune to the virus but the FDA says that’s yet to be proven. Roy says if it’s true his supplier is prepared to mass-produce the tests.
“These can be manufactured to the tune of two million a day and at that point it is just a matter of getting them into the right hands where people can actively be tested,” says Roy.
Global Data Fusion is set to offer the test to hospitals and other companies and is not offering individual tests to the public. The tests, from a Chinese producer, will be shipped to Lafayette sometime this week.
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