FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
Further information from a German paper:<p>- Roche has been working on this already for weeks with high priority.<p>- These are tests that run on high-throughput machines, namely the Roche Cobas 6800/8800 systems:<p><a href="https://www.dialog.roche.com/pk/en_us/products_and_solutions/molecular-lab/cobas-6800-8800-systems.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.dialog.roche.com/pk/en_us/products_and_solutions...</a><p>- One Cobas 8800 is able to perform 4100 tests per day in a fully automatic fashion.<p>- There are roughly 800 Cobas 6800/8800 in Europe, US and Asia combined.<p>- One test costs about 15 CHF (which is roughly 15 USD) (EDIT: This is what <i>Roche</i> gets per test. The overall laboratory cost is probably much more expensive).<p>- Roche is pretty much the only manufacturer for machines like these.<p>Source (German):<p><a href="https://www.faz.net/2.1690/pharmakonzern-roche-neuer-schnelltest-fuer-coronavirus-16678244.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.faz.net/2.1690/pharmakonzern-roche-neuer-schnell...</a><p>EDIT: More exact numbers in the linked article: Cobas 6800 can do 1440 tests/day, Cobas 8800 4128 tests/day.