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