{"id":31565,"date":"2020-04-07T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=31565"},"modified":"2020-04-08T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:08:33","slug":"abbott-id-now-covid-19-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/04\/07\/abbott-id-now-covid-19-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott, a Leading Heart Valve Manufacturer, Develops New 5-Minute COVID-19 Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news!<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to report that Abbott, a leading manufacturer of heart valve replacement and repair devices, has developed a new, rapid molecular test that can detect COVID-19 in just 5 minutes.\u00a0 Yes, just 5 minutes!!!<\/p>\n<p>This is a HUGE improvement compared to other coronavirus tests that can take several days to get positive or negative results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Abboot-ID-Now-COVID-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Abbott started shipping the coronavirus test, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alere.com\/en\/home\/product-details\/id-now-covid-19.html\">ID NOW<\/a> system, on March 31 after receiving a U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization.\u00a0 In this video, Gavin Cloherty, Head of Infectious Disease Research at Abbott, describes the features and the advantages of the ID Now system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAi5ErSjNvY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just learned that Abbott has already shipped over 190,000 tests. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbott.com\/corpnewsroom\/product-and-innovation\/an-update-on-abbotts-work-on-COVID-19-testing.html\">Abbott&#8217;s recent update<\/a>, the company is now quickly ramping-up manufacturing of the ID NOW test system to a capacity greater than 2 million tests per month.<\/p>\n<p>Plus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more good news&#8230; Abbott is working on several new tests for the fight against COVID-19.\u00a0 Watch this video with Miles White, CEO of Abbott, to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFtt6oN4Erc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks Abbott!!!<\/h2>\n<p>On behalf of the patients, the front-line medical care providers, the hospitals and the global healthcare system, many thanks to Abbott for proactively responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with its new ID NOW test!<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/03\/27\/medtronic-ventilator-covid-19\/\">Medtronic Doubles Ventilator Capacity to Help COVID-19 Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/covid-19-blood-shortage.php\">Surgeon Q&amp;A: What Should You Know About the COVID-19 Blood Shortage?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/dr-craig-smith-covid-19-daily-updates.php\">COVID-19 Will Not Break Dr. Craig Smith &amp; NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/covid-19-elective-surgery.php\">Video Interview: Is Heart Valve Surgery &#8220;Elective&#8221; During COVID-19 Crisis?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}